Clinical benefit of carotid endarterectomy based on duplex ultrasonography

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 323-327

  Kasper, Gregory C ^a   Lohr, Joann M ^a   Welling, Richard E ^a  

^a GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0141746240     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440303700503     Document Type: Article

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