Neuropathology of central nervous system arterial syndromes. Part I: the supratentorial circulation.

The objective of this review is to illustrate the principal cerebrovascular arterial pathoanatomical syndromes using the unique collection of whole brain sections in the Raymond Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory at Salpêtrière in Paris. The arterial supratentorial syndromes are presented in Part I; the infratentorial and spinal cord syndromes will be presented subsequently in Part II. No attempt is made to be all-inclusive in the review of the literature; rather, we cite only those bibliographic references that are historically noteworthy and with some exceptions that particularly emphasize the neuropathologic rather than radiographic/imaging aspects of the vascular syndromes. From these studies and our own archival material, we have synthesized the salient clinicopathologic aspects of the individual syndromes.