Relationship between plasma homocysteine and the morphological and immunohistochemical study of carotid plaques in patients with carotid stenosis over 70%

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 500-505

  Alvarez, Beatriz ^a   Yugueros, Xavier ^a   Fernández, Elisabeth ^a   Luccini, Federico ^a   Gené, Anna ^a   Matas, Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN;

EID: 84860227489     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2011.05.047     Document Type: Article

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