Roughly 1 to 2 in 5 cases of stroke are haemorrhagic.1-4 Haemorrhagic strokes are most commonly caused by an intracerebral haemorrhage.5 Diagnosis should be performed using computed tomography (CT) head scan, which can confirm the bleeding.3,6
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