Five hundred consecutive carotid endarterectomies: Emphasis on vein patch closure

Vascular

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-144

  Lawhorne, T W ^a   Brooks, H B ^a   Cunningham, J M ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid endarterectomy; low stroke incidence; vein patch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRAIN; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VEINS;

EID: 0343554043     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099700500201     Document Type: Review

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