Carotid occlusive disease: Primary care of patients with or without symptoms

Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 24-41

  Eugene, Jean Renoir ^a   Abdallah, Mohammed ^b   Miglietta, Maurizio ^a   Vernenkar, Vic V ^a   Pascual, Rudolfo ^c   Briones, Renato ^d   Barnes, Thomas ^d   Hager, Jeffrey ^d  

^a ST BARNABAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Atlantic City Campus   (United States)

^c DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032909722     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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