Late stage complicated atheroma in low-grade stenotic carotid disease: MR imaging depiction - Prevalence and risk factors

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 841-847

  Cheung, Helen M C ^a   Moody, Alan R ^a   Singh, Navneet ^a   Bitar, Richard ^a   Zhan, James ^a   Leung, General ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84860389102     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101652     Document Type: Article

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