Looking beyond the lumen to predict cerebrovascular events "the road less travelled by"

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 759-760

  Willinek, Winfried A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery disease; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645068904     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000208558.95300.9a     Document Type: Editorial

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