Carotid Plaque Morphology and Ischemic Vascular Brain Disease on MRI.
Quirijn J A van den BouwhuijsenMeike W VernooijBenjamin F J VerhaarenHenri A VroomanWiro J NiessenGabriel P KrestinMohammad Arfan IkramOscar H FrancoA V D LugtPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2017)
The presence of carotid intraplaque hemorrhage on MR imaging is independently associated with MR imaging-defined cortical infarcts, but not with lacunar infarcts. Plaque calcification, but not vulnerable plaque components, is related to white matter lesion volume.