Intracranial internal carotid artery calcifications: Association with vascular risk factors and ischemic cerebrovascular disease

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 177-184

  De Weert, T T ^a   Cakir, H ^a   Rozie, S ^a   Cretier, S ^a   Meijering, E ^a   Dippel, D W J ^a   Van Der Lugt, A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 58249131780     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1301     Document Type: Article

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