Identifying the high-risk carotid plaque

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages 11-20

  Naylor, A R ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid artery diseases; Carotid stenosis; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE PATIENT;

CAROTID STENOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84901398959     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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