Unprotected carotid artery stenting in symptomatic patients with high-grade stenosis: Results and long-term follow-up in a single-center experience

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1285-1291

  Oteros Fernández, Rafael ^a   Jimenez Gomez, E ^a   Bravo Rodriguez, F ^a   Ochoa, J J ^a   Guerrero, R ^a   Delgado, F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTENOSIS; STENT THROMBOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SPAIN; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861536841     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2951     Document Type: Article

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