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Table 5 Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia and cerebral microbleeds territorial distribution

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

CMBs

Patients with VBD

Patients without VBD

P value

Number = 16 (%)

Number = 96 (%)

Anterior Territory

1 (6%)

35 (36%)

0.129 (NS)

Posterior Territory

12 (75%)

23 (24%)

0.000**

Both Territories

3 (19%)

38 (40%)

0.593 (NS)

  1. CMBs: cerebral microbleeds; VBD: vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
  2. Both Territories (anterior and posterior territory)
  3. 2) test = Pearson chi-square
  4. NS: no statistically significant difference
  5. **High Statistically significant difference between both groups (P value < 0.05)