Endovascular treatment with angioplasty or stenting versus endarterectomy in patients with carotid artery stenosis in the Carotid And Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS): long-term follow-up of a randomised trial

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 898-907

  Ederle, Jörg ^a   Bonati, Leo H ^a   Dobson, Joanna ^b   Featherstone, Roland L ^a   Gaines, Peter A ^c   Beard, Jonathan D ^c   Venables, Graham S ^d   Markus, Hugh S ^e   Clifton, Andrew ^f   Sandercock, Peter ^g   Brown, Martin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69749113578     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(09)70228-5     Document Type: Article

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