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Implications of the angiographic string sign in carotid atherosclerosis.
We identified 60 patients (42 men and 18 women with an average age of 62.6 years) with angiographically documented carotid stenoses of greater than or equal to 95%; a string sign was demonstrated in 28. Twenty of the 60 patients (33%) were asymptomatic on presentation, 26 (43%) had hemispheric transient ischemic attacks, 21 (35%) had amaurosis fugax, and nine (15%) had previous ipsilateral infa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vascular Surgery
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0741-5214
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2004.10.042