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Why is it hard to tell the amount of brain damage after a stroke happens?
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MRI helps: An MRI is more likely to detect the extent of an acute stroke than a ct scan.
Answered 6/10/2014
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It is not !: The amount of brain damage after a stroke can assessed reasonably well with new generation MRI scans the symptomatic;ogg depends on the location as well as the amount and the rate of progress if any is very much related to age and other concomitant illnesses, .
Answered 6/10/2014
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