Safety of Latest-Generation Self-expanding Stents in Patients with NASCET-Ineligible Severe Symptomatic Extracranial Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-43

  Linfante, Italo ^a,c   Hirsch, Joshua A ^b   Selim, Magdy ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a   Caplan, Louis R ^a   Reddy, Arra S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 0346057963     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.1.39     Document Type: Article

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