1.  Bednar MM, Raymond S, McAuliffe T, Lodge PA, Gross CE:  The role of neutrophils and
platelets in a rabbit  model of thromboembolic stroke.  Stroke 22:44-50, 1991 
2.  Berg-Dammer E, Mobius E, Nahser HC, Kuhne D.  Local thrombolytic therapy for
thromboembolic occlusion of the middle cerebral artery.  Neurol Res 14:164-166, 1992 
3.  Caplan LR.  Brain embolism, revisited.  Neurology 43:1281-1287, 1993 
4.  Colditz GA, Bonita R, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Rosner B, Speizer FE, Hennekens CH: 
Cigarette smoking and risk of  stroke in middle-aged women.  N Engl J Med  318:937-941, 1988
5.  del Zoppo GJ, Poeck K, Pessin MS, Wolpert SM, Furlan AJ, Ferbert A, Alberts MJ, Zivin
JA, Wechsler L, Busse O:  Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in acute thrombotic and
embolic stroke.  Ann Neurol  32:78-86, 1992 
6.  Fredericksson K, Rosen I, Johansson BB, Wieloch T:  Cerebral platelet thromboembolism and
thromboxane synthetase inhibition.  Stroke 16:800-805, 1985 
7.  Gent M, Blakely JA, Easton JD, Ellis DJ, Hachinski VC, Harbison JW, Panak E, Roberts RS,
Sicurella J, Turpie AGG.  The Canadian American ticlopidine study (CATS) in thromboembolic
stroke.  Lancet 1:1215-1220, 1989 
8.  Kannel WB, Gordon T, Wolf PA, McNamara P:  Hemoglobin and the risk of cerebral
infarction:  The Framingham Study.  Stroke 3:409-420, 1972 
9.  Kannel WB, Dawber TR, Sorlie P, Wolf PA:  Components of  blood pressure and risk of
atherothrombotic brain infarction:  The Framingham Study.  Stroke  7:327-331, 1976 
10.  Laureno R, Shields RW, Narayan T:  The diagnosis and management of cerebral embolism
and haemorrhagic infarction with sequential 
cranial tomography.  Brain 110:93-105, 1987 
11.  Papadopoulos SM, Chandler WF, Salamat MS, Topol 
EJ, Sackellares JC:  Recombinant human tissue-type plasminogen activator therapy in acute
thromboembolic stroke.  J Neurosurg 67:394-398, 1987 
12.  Turpie AGG, Bloch R, Duke R:  Heparin in the treatment of thromboembolic stroke.  Ann
NY Acad Sci 556:406-415, 1989 
13. Van Camp G, Shulze D, Cosyns B, Vandenbossche J-L: Relation between patent foramen ovale and unexplained stroke. Am J Cardiol 71:596-598, 1993