Rational approach to combined carotid and ischaemic heart disease

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1503-1510

  Renton, S ^a   Hornick, P ^a   Taylor, K M ^a   Grace, P A ^a,b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPY;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030666421     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800841105     Document Type: Review

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