Angiogenesis in Carotid Atherosclerotic Lesions Is Associated with Timing of Ischemic Neurological Events and Presence of Computed Tomographic Cerebral Infarction in the Ipsilateral Cerebral Hemisphere

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 266-272

  Mofidi, Reza ^a   Powell, Thomas I ^a   Crotty, Thomas ^a   Mehigan, Denis ^a   MacErlaine, Donal ^a   Keaveny, Thomas V ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CD34 SELECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40749151079     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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