Screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: Caveat emptor

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 370-371

  Goldstein, Larry B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT HARM; POPULATION RISK; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; STENT;

ANGIOPLASTY; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; STROKE;

EID: 84906972667     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1332     Document Type: Editorial

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