Topographic pattern of advanced atherosclerotic lesions in carotid arteries

Cardiology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-240

  Khatibzadeh, Mehran ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Abdolhamid ^a   Gromoll, Bernd ^a   Stierte, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic arch; Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID SINUS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CADAVER; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ULCER;

EID: 0031906732     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006793     Document Type: Article

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