Resolved: NASCET and ACAS need not be repeated - The affirmative position

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 775-778

  Moore, Wesley S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; TICLOPIDINE;

BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; METHODOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; STROKE;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES;

EID: 0037650982     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.5.775     Document Type: Review

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