Stenting versus surgery in patients with carotid stenosis after previous cervical radiation therapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 793-801

  Fokkema, Margriet ^a   Den Hartog, Anne G ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^a   Van Der Tweel, Ingeborg ^a   Moll, Frans L ^a   De Borst, Gert Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

angioplasty stenting; carotid stenosis; endarterectomy; outcomes; radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CERVICAL RADIATION THERAPY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; EMBASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RESTENOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID STENOSIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MEDLINE; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857649151     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.633743     Document Type: Article

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