Peripheral arterial atherosclerosis in patients with extracranial, not intracranial, arterial stenosis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1515-1519

  Watanabe, Masao ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Iguchi, Yasuyuki ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a   Urabe, Takao ^b   Hattori, Nobutaka ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ankle brachial pressure index (ABI); Intima media thickness (IMT); Ischemic stroke; Peripheral arterial disease (PAD); Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 77956205494     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3434     Document Type: Article

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