What are Current Preprocedure Imaging Requirements for Carotid Artery Stenting and Carotid Endarterectomy: Have Magnetic Resonance Angiography and Computed Tomographic Angiography Made a Difference?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 205-215

  Maldonado, Thomas S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENOSIS; STENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY; ANGIOSCOPY; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 37049007678     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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