Stroke pattern and topography of cerebral infarcts. A clinicopathological study.

In a series of 312 postmortem confirmed cerebral infarcts the clinical history was reviewed and the pattern of the strokes compared to the involved vascular territory. A high incidence of silent strokes was observed, and reversible neurological deficits occurred mostly in infarcts in the vertebrobasilar circulation, in particular in those in the supply area of the posterior cerebral and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries.