Emergency carotid endarterectomy

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 270-281

  Eckstein, Hans Henning ^a,b   Schumacher, Hardy ^a   Klemm, Klaus ^a   Laubach, Hans ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^a   Ringleb, Peter ^a   Dörfler, Arnd ^a   Weigand, Markus ^a   Bardenheuer, Hubert ^a   Allenberg, Jens Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid endarterectomy; Emergency; Ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCIES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032822361     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015978     Document Type: Article

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