Asymptomatic carotid artery plaques: use of magnetic resonance imaging to characterize vulnerable plaques in 6 cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-39

  Honda, Masaru ^a   Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Kitagawa, Naoki ^a   Tsutsumi, Keisuke ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Hayashi, Tomayoshi ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic carotid artery plaque; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

FAT; PROTON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THROMBUS;

AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33845920107     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.06.038     Document Type: Article

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