Current indications for carotid endarterectomy

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 268-274

  Loftus, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study; Carotid artery diseases; Carotid surgery; North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0031797388     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.suppl_268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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