Relevance of Carotid Stenosis Progression as a Predictor of Ischemic Neurological Outcomes

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 2285-2289

  Bertges, Daniel J ^a   Muluk, Visala ^a   Whittle, Jeffrey ^a   Kelley, Mary ^a   MacPherson, David S ^a   Muluk, Satish C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 0142150190     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.19.2285     Document Type: Article

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