There is more to it than: the greater the infarction volume, the more probable is a malignant MCA infarction.
Bosche
Bert
B
Hamann
Gerhard F
GF
Dohmen
Christian
C
Graf
Rudolf
R
D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier / Q000473:pathology; D005353:Fibronectins / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D020244:Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D020780:Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 / Q000378:metabolism; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020521:Stroke; D013997:Time Factors; D015854:Up-Regulation
D005353:Fibronectins; D020782:Matrix Metalloproteinases; D020780:Matrix Metalloproteinase 9