Surgery vs stent: Treatment for carotid artery disease

Advanced Studies in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Alhaddad, Imad A ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DEVICE; EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 19444379174     PISSN: 15303004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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