Compensatory arterial enlargement is a common pathobiologic response in early atherosclerosis

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-143

  Labropoulos, Nicos ^a   Zarge, Joseph ^a   Mansour, M Ashraf ^a   Kang, Steven S ^a   Baker, William H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ARTERIES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0032143306     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00135-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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