Cerebrovacular Diseases.docVIP

Cerebrovascular Diseases: Introduction Among all the neurologic diseases of adult life, stroke clearly ranks first in frequency and importance—at least half of the neurologic disorders in a general hospital are of this type. This group of diseases has also provided the most instructive approach to localization in neurology. As our colleague C.M. Fisher aptly remarked, house officers and students learn neurology stroke by stroke. The focal ischemic lesion has divulged some of our most important ideas about the function of the human brain. In the last two decades, extraordinary imaging technolog