Carotid endarterectomy in the elderly: Does gender effect outcome?

Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 534-537

  Ozsvath, Kathleen J ^a   Darling, R Clement ^a   Tabatabai, Laila ^a   Roddy, Sean P ^a   Paty, Philip S K ^a   Chang, Benjamin B ^a   Kreienberg, Paul B ^a   Mehta, Manish ^a   Shah, Dhiraj M ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid; Endarterectomy; Gender

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REGISTER; SEX ROLE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036890666     PISSN: 09672109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-2109(02)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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