Location of Cerebral Microbleeds May Predict Subsequent Stroke after Transient Ischemic Attack

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
² Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Jae-Sung Lim et al. J Stroke. 2016 May.

. 2016 May;18(2):236-8.

doi: 10.5853/jos.2015.00353. Epub 2016 May 31.

¹ Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.
² Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no financial conflicts of interest.

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