Carotid artery stenosis: Making complex assessments of a simple problem or simplifying approach to a complex disease?

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 627-628

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Needleman, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid artery stenosis; imaging; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CAROTID STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS;

EID: 84857656751     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.645457     Document Type: Editorial

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