Cerebral microembolism in symptomatic and asymptomatic high-grade internal carotid artery stenosis

Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 615-618

  Siebler, Mario ^a   Kleinschmidt, A ^a   Sitzer, M ^a   Steinmetz, H ^a   Freund, H J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0028331993     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.44.4.615     Document Type: Article

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