The fall and rise of carotid endarterectomy in the United States and Canada

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 1441-1447

  Tu, Jack V ^a,b   Hannan, Edward L ^c   Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a,b   Iron, Karey ^a   Wu, Keyi ^a   Vranizan, Karen ^d   Popp, John ^e   Grumbach, Kevin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032512033     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199811123392006     Document Type: Article

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