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Invited Professor Series
How can you differentiate perforator disease vs artery-to-artery embolus as a stroke etiology?
Answer from: at Community Practice
The infarct pattern is helpful. Perforator infarcts are deep subcortical infarcts whereas emboli tend to be superficial.
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