Asymptomatic carotid stenosis and unrelated operations: Should we be more aggressive?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 608-613

  Hagino, Ryan T ^a   Rossi, Phillip J ^b   Rossi, Matthew B ^b   Valentine, R James ^c   Clagett, G Patrick ^c  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Midwestern Vascular Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; STROKE;

AGED; AMAUROSIS FUGAX; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035003824     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(01)00848-1     Document Type: Article

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