Magnetic resonance detected carotid plaque hemorrhage is associated with inflammatory features in symptomatic carotid plaques

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 655-661

  Altaf, Nishath ^a   Akwei, Solomon ^a   Auer, Dorothee P ^a   Macsweeney, Shane T ^a   Lowe, James ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CAROTID PLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; CELL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84879686508     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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