Does carotid stenting measure up to endarterectomy? A vascular surgeon's experience

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 734-738

  Eskandari, Mark K ^a   Longo, G Matthew ^a   Vijungco, Joseph D ^a   Morasch, Mark D ^a   Pearce, William H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTENOSIS; SEIZURE; STENT; STROKE; SYSTOLE; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 3042780431     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.7.734     Document Type: Article

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