Stratifying Carotid Diseases for Endovascular Treatments
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Stratifying carotid diseases for endovascular treatments.
Endovascular angioplasty and stenting (CAS) has evolved as an alternative for treating occlusive carotid diseases in recent years. Carotid diseases are characterized by manifold etiologies and miscellaneous clinical manifestations. Although CAS is efficacious in treating patients with occlusive carotid diseases as a whole, the long-term risk-benefit ratio may vary in individual patients. Interv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interventional Neurology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-5545,1664-9737
DOI: 10.1159/000338358