Measuring carotid artery intima-media thickness: Simplicity versus complexity?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-104

  Polak, Joseph F ^a   Pencina, Michael J ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOTE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84055189573     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.11.004     Document Type: Editorial

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