Functional Occlusions of the Carotid Artery (String Signs). To Treat or Not to Treat?

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-306

  Yadav, Jay S ^a  

^a PIEDMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid; collateral circulation; occlusion; revascularization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949338708     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2010.01.005     Document Type: Editorial

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