Fissured fibrous cap of vulnerable carotid plaques and symptomaticity: Are they correlated? preliminary results by using multi-detector-row ct angiography

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 322-327

  Saba, L ^a   Mallarini, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Multi detector row CT angiography; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISSURED FIBROUS CAP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 59849089962     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000202008     Document Type: Article

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