Stroke, Vol 11, 325-328, Copyright © 1980 by American Heart Association
A Goran and G Moore
Non-invasive vascular testing has proven to be an effective means of
identifying patients with significant extracranial carotid artery disease.
Such tests can yield valuable physiologic data in patients with TIAs and
can identify patients with soft signs who may have significant carotid
artery disease and who may be candidates for angiography. It may be an
effective means of reducing the number of negative carotid angiograms.
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Value of the non-invasive cerebrovascular laboratory in diagnosis of extracranial carotid artery disease. An analysis of 159 studies in 157 patients
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