Imaging of carotid plaque angiogenesis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 48-54

  Vicenzini, Edoardo ^a   Giannoni, Maria Fabrizia ^b   Benedetti Valentini, Fabrizio ^b   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adventitial vasa vasorum; Carotid plaque vascularization; Carotid ultrasound; Echo contrast agents

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SONOVUE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ULTRASOUND; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VASA VASORUM;

CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MICROBUBBLES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 65349181838     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000203126     Document Type: Article

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