Treatment of carotid artery disease: Stenting or surgery?

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-53

  Lal, Brajesh K ^a   Hobson II, Robert W ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; STENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; STENTS;

EID: 33846707496     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0021-7     Document Type: Review

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