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| eMedicine Lacunar Stroke Lacunar Stroke - The lacunar hypothesis proposes that (1) symptomatic lacunes present with distinctive lacunar syndromes and (2) a lacune is due to occlusion of a single deep penetrating artery generated by a specific vascular pathology. This concept is controversial because different definitions of lacunes have been used. Lacunes may be confused with other empty spaces, such as enlarged perivascular (Virchow-Robbins) spaces, in which the specific small vessel pathology occasionally is absent. Originally, lacunes were defined pathologically, but lacunes ... |

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