Figure 2.

(A) Number of deaths resulting from principal diagnoses. (B) Comparison of length of stay in hospital to time of death from principal diagnoses. Lower and upper hinges of boxes represent the first and third quartiles for length of stay in hospital to time of death, respectively. Central lines in the boxes correspond to median values. The upper and lower whiskers extend to the largest and smallest values no further than 1.5 × IQR from each hinge, respectively. Outliers are excluded. IS, ischemic stroke; LAA, large artery atherosclerosis; CE, cardioembolism; SVO, small-artery occlusion; ME, meningoencephalopathy; EP, encephalopathy ETC as a principal diagnosis includes malignant neoplasm (4), brain abscess (3), tetanus (3), acute transverse myelitis (2), IgG4-related disease (1), injury of cervical spinal cord (1), halogenated insecticides (1), anoxic brain damage (1), Guillain-Barre syndrome (1), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (1), myocardial infarction (1). Others in ischemic stroke contain stroke of other determined etiology and stroke of undetermined etiology.