Assessment of carotid plaque stability based on the dynamic enhancement pattern in plaque components with multidetector CT angiography

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 393-398

  Horie, Nobutaka ^a   Morikawa, Minoru ^a   Ishizaka, Shunsuke ^a   Takeshita, Tomonori ^a   So, Gohei ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^a   Suyama, Kazuhiko ^a   Nagata, Izumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

carotid plaque; delayed phase; multidetector computed tomography angiography; stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856493092     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.635953     Document Type: Article

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