Ulcerated carotid plaques with ultrasonic echolucency are causatively associated with thromboembolic cerebrovascular events

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-99

  Nakamura, Tomomi ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Yukiko ^a   Shimizu, Yuko ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Itabashi Chuo Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular event; diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; thromboembolism; Ulcerated carotid plaque; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAROTID STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ULCER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84872399502     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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