Vascular events during follow-up in patients with aortic arch atherosclerosis

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-39

  Mitusch, Rolf ^a   Doherty, Christopher ^b   Wucherpfennig, Heiner ^a   Memmesheimer, Christian ^a   Tepe, Claudia ^a   Stierle, Ulrich ^a   Kessler, Christoph ^b   Sheikhzadeh, Abdolhamid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

aortic arch; atherosclerosis; echocardiography; embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031023771     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.1.36     Document Type: Article

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