Current status of the surgical treatment of patients with carotid artery disease: The surgical management of carotid atherosclerosis

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 69-77

  Wittgen, C M ^a   Brewster, D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Morbidity; Mortality; Operative benefit; Patient selection

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK; STROKE;

CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031040883     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.48.1.69     Document Type: Review

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