Echolucent femoral plaques entail higher risk of echolucent carotid plaques and a more severe inflammatory profile in peripheral arterial disease

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 346-351

  Sirico, Giusy ^a   Brevetti, Gregorio ^a   Lanero, Simona ^a   Laurenzano, Eugenio ^a   Luciano, Rossella ^a   Chiariello, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 59749088466     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.09.019     Document Type: Article

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