Utility of the assessment of echogenicity in the identification of symptomatic carotid artery atheroma plaques in ischemic stroke p atients

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 535-541

  Ruiz Ares, G ^a   Fuentes, B ^a   Martinez Sanchez P ^a   Martinez Martinez M ^a   Diez Tejedor E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atheroma plaques echogenicity; GSM value; Ischemic stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81355141558     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330654     Document Type: Article

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