Carotid artery calcification on multislice detector-row computed tomography

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-26

  Uwatoko, Takeshi ^a   Toyoda, Kazunori ^a,c   Inoue, Tooru ^a   Yasumori, Kotaro ^a   Hirai, Yuko ^a   Makihara, Noriko ^a   Fujimoto, Shigeru ^a   Ibayashi, Setsuro ^b   Iida, Mitsuo ^b   Okada, Yasushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain infarction; Carotid artery plaque; Carotid stenosis; Renal failure; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 34347404135     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103112     Document Type: Article

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