New Duplex Criteria for Threshold Stenoses Used in the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-32

  Aburahma, Ali F ^a,b   Pollack, James A ^a   Robinson, Patrick A ^a   Richmond, Bryan K ^a   Alberts, Stephanie ^a   Young, Lori ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY BRUIT; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; DIASTOLE; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; SYSTOLE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

EID: 0032907719     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857449903300106     Document Type: Article

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