Curr Opin Neurol 2021 Feb 24. Epub 2021 Feb 24.
J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Center for Imaging Sciences and Medical Physics. Department of Medical Imaging, Hematology and Clinical Oncology. Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil Division of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Institute of Cardiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Departments of Epidemiology and Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Both Maria Clara Zanon Zotin and Lukas Sveikata contributed equally to the manuscript.
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