Carotid artery stenting versus carotid endarterectomy: A comprehensive meta-analysis of short-term and long-term outcomes

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 687-692

  Economopoulos, Konstantinos P ^a   Sergentanis, Theodoros N ^a   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^b,c   Mariolis, Anargiros D ^d   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

carotid endarterectomy; carotid stenosis; meta analysis; stenting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STENTS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952069059     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.606079     Document Type: Article

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