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Triaging patients with transient ischemic attack—what can we learn from diffusion-weighted imaging?

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boxed-textBoulanger JM et al. (2007) Diffusion-weighted imaging-negative patients with transient ischemic attack are at risk of recurrent transient events. Stroke 38: 2367–2369

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  1. S Prabhakaran is Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director of the Stroke Program, and Head of the Section of Cerebrovascular Disease and Critical Care, at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.,

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