Correlating carotid artery stenosis detected by panoramic radiography with clinically relevant carotid artery stenosis determined by duplex ultrasound

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 768-773

  Almog, Dov M ^a   Horev, Tuvia ^a   Illig, Karl A ^b   Green, Richard M ^b   Carter, Laurie C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0036886260     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.128965     Document Type: Article

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