The Symptomatic Carotid Plaque
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- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 31 (3) , 774-781
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.31.3.774
Abstract
Background—The natural histories of equally severe symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenoses are very different, which suggests dichotomy in plaque behavior. The vascular biology of the symptom...Keywords
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