A three-dimensional ultrasonographic quantitative analysis of non-ulcerated carotid plaque morphology in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-135

  Heliopoulos, John ^a   Vadikolias, Konstantinos ^a   Mitsias, Panayiotis ^b   Artemis, Dimitrios ^a   Tripsianis, Grigorios ^a   Piperidou, Charitomeni ^a   Artemis, Nicolaos ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Stroke; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STROKE; SYMPTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 40949104836     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.11.036     Document Type: Article

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