Age and gender disparities in the risk of carotid revascularization procedures

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1711-1717

  Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a   Katsanos, Aristeidis H ^a   Vasdekis, Spyros N ^b   Boviatsis, Efstathios ^c   Voumvourakis, Konstantinos I ^c   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Age; Carotid artery stenting; Carotid endarterectomy; Disparities; Gender

Indexed keywords

AGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EUROPE; GENDER; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGING; CAROTID STENOSIS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886444982     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-013-1453-2     Document Type: Review

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