Heba Gamal Abdelrahman

Atherosclerotic aortic arch plaques in acute ischemic stroke / تصلب الشريان الأورطى الصدرى فى حالات السكتة الدماغية الحادة Heba Gamal Abdelrahman ; Supervised Randa Shawki Deif , Mohamed Ahmed Elsayed , Fouad Abdelmonem Abdallah - Cairo : Heba Gamal Abdelrahman , 2008 - 140 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine- Department of Neuropsychiatry

Approximately 40 percent of cerebral infarctions can not be classified as strokes of determined cause despite a comolete diagnostic work-up and can be referred to as stroke of undetermined etiology.Little attention had been paid to atherosclerotic disease of the aortic arch as a possible source of cerebral emboli



Aortic arch Atherosclerotic Stroke