Correlations between the atherosclerotic changes of femoral, carotid and coronary arteries. A post mortem study

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 241-245

  Molnár, Sándor ^a   Kerényi, Levente ^b   Ritter, Martin A ^c   Magyar, Mária T ^a   Ida, Yaeko ^d   Szöllosi, Zoltán ^a   Csiba, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b Szent György Hospital Székesfehérvár   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid; Coronary; Femoral; Ischemic stroke; Post mortem

Indexed keywords

ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; STROKE;

EID: 70350617797     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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