Carotid artery wall thickness: Comparison between sonography and multi-detector row CT angiography

Neuroradiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-82

  Saba, Luca ^a   Sanfilippo, Roberto ^a   Montisci, Roberto ^a   Mallarini, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; CAWT; IMT; MDCTA; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77949264926     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-009-0589-5     Document Type: Article

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