Thirty-day morbidity and mortality rates for carotid artery intervention by surgeons who perform both carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery angioplasty and stent placement

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-221

  Ecker, Robert D ^a,b   Lau, Tsz ^a   Levy, Elad I ^a   Hopkins, L Nelson ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b US Naval Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Carotid; Carotid artery; Endarterectomy; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STROKE; SURGEON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846847722     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2007.106.2.217     Document Type: Article

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