Carotid artery stenting versus surgery: adequate comparisons? - Triallists' reply

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-342

  Brown, Martin M ^a   Mas, Jean Louis ^b   Ringleb, Peter A ^c   Hacke, Werner ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STENT; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 77949305578     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70029-6     Document Type: Letter

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