Subcortical Stroke Book

	List of contributors
1	The history of lacunes	3
2	Commentary on subcortical strokes	17
3	Classification of subcortical infarcts	27
4	Pathology of lacunar infarction	37
5	Leukoaraiosis	47
6	Molecular mechanisms of subcortical versus cortical infarction	67
7	Risk factors for lacunar infarction	87
8	Genetic susceptibility and lacunar stroke	99
9	Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy	111
10	MRI and other neuroimaging modalities for subcortical stroke	123
11	Carotid angiography in patients with subcortical ischaemia	137
12	Electroencephalography in patients with small, deep infarcts	145
13	About lacunes	153
14	Lacunar syndromes - are they still worth diagnosing?	161
15	The capsular warning syndrome and lacunar TIAs	175
16	Hyperacute diagnosis of subcortical infarction	185
17	Striatocapsular infarcts	195
18	Caudate infarcts	209
19	Anterior choroidal artery territory infarcts	225
20	Internal watershed infarction	241
21	Thalamic infarcts	255
22	Acute infarcts in the white matter medullary artery territory of the centrum ovale	287
23	Prognosis of patients with lacunar infarction syndromes	297
24	Therapy for lacunar and subcortical stroke	313
25	MRI changes as a risk factor for intracerebral haemorrhage	337
26	Subcortical haemorrhages	347
	References	379
	Index	451