What We Learned about Trials from the European Carotid Stent Trials

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-161

  Zeebregts, Clark J ^a   Cheshire, Nick J ^b   Bosiers, Marc ^c   Cao, Piergiorgio ^d   Verhoeven, Eric L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Vascular Surgery ^*  (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENT; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CAROTID STENOSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37749041625     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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