Measuring carotid artery stenosis: Comparison of postmortem arteriograms with the planimetric gold standard

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 252, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 575-582

  Schulte Altedorneburg, Gernot ^a,b,d   Droste, Dirk W ^b   Kollár, József ^c   Beyna, Torsten ^b   Felszeghy, Szabolcs ^a   Módis, László ^a   Hegedüs, Csaba ^a   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^b   Csiba, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Carotid arteries; Diagnosis; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 20044393851     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-005-0703-5     Document Type: Article

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