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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 4 Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia and cerebral microbleeds incidence

From: Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia in patients with cerebrovascular ischemic stroke: does it have a role in cerebral microbleeds?

Presence of CMBs

Patients with VBD

Patients without VBD

P value

Number = 19 (%)

Number = 181 (%)

With CMBs

16 (84%)

96 (53%)

0.009*

Without CMBs

3 (16%)

85 (47%)

  1. CMBs: cerebral microbleeds; VBD: Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
  2. (χ2) test = Pearson chi-square
  3. *Statistically significant difference between both groups (P value < 0.05)
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