Influence and critique of CREST and ICSS trials

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 153-156

  Veith, Frank J ^a   Paraskevas, Kosmas I ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; STUDY DESIGN; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 83455195619     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: 15584518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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