Outcomes of carotid artery stenting and endarterectomy in the United States

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 325-330

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^a   Haser, Paul B ^a   Scheirer, James C ^a   Graham, Alan M ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENT; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CAROTID STENOSIS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649085297     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.08.112     Document Type: Article

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