Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the evaluation of neovascularization in atherosclerotic carotid artery plaques

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3073-3075

  Saito, Kozue ^a   Nagatsuka, Kazuyuki ^a   Ishibashi Ueda, Hatsue ^a   Watanabe, Akihiro ^a   Kannki, Hideaki ^a   Iihara, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

carotid stenosis; contrast agents; neovascularization; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PERFLUBUTANE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; HUMANS; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84922480965     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006483     Document Type: Article

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