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Should all patients with suspected stroke have brain MRI instead of CT?

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boxed-textChalela JA et al. (2007) Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in emergency assessment of patients with suspected acute stroke: a prospective comparison. Lancet 369: 293–298

Diffusion-weighted MRI should be used instead of CT in patients with mild stroke if it is important to make a positive diagnosis of ischemic stroke

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  1. Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK joanna.wardlaw@ed.ac.uk

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  1. Head of the Imaging Section in the Division of Clinical Neurosciences, JM Wardlaw is Professor of Applied Neuroimaging, and Director of the Scottish Funding Council Brain Imaging Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.,

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