New criteria for the sonographic diagnosis of a plaque ulcer in the extracranial carotid artery

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1161-1166

  Muraki, Mutsuko ^a   Mikami, Taisei ^b   Yoshimoto, Tetsuyuki ^a   Fujimoto, Shin ^a   Tokuda, Kohichi ^a   Kaneko, Sadao ^a   Kashiwaba, Takeshi ^a  

^a Kashiwaba Neurosurgery Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; Plaque ulcer; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84860319979     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7018     Document Type: Article

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