Quantitative measurement of carotid intima-media roughness - Effect of age and manifest coronary artery disease

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-65

  Schmidt Trucksäss, Arno ^a   Sandrock, Markus ^a   Cheng, Da Chuan ^b   Müller, Hans Michael ^a   Baumstark, Manfred W ^a   Rauramaa, Rainer ^c   Berg, Aloys ^a   Huonker, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Common carotid artery; Coronary artery disease; Intima media; Roughness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0037212424     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(02)00245-9     Document Type: Article

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