'Fast track' carotid duplex scanning in a district general hospital

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 167-170

  Kumar, S ^a   Osman, I S ^a   Woollard, C J ^a   Cameron, A E P ^a  

^a IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid duplex scanning; Stroke prevention; Transient ischaemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; STROKE; TIME; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0034060230     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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