Echomorphologic and histopathologic characteristics of unstable carotid plaques

TJ Tegos, M Sohail, MM Sabetai… - American journal …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our hypothesis was that the carotid plaques associated
with retinal and cerebrovascular symptomatology and asymptomatic presentation may be …

Determinants of carotid plaque instability: echoicity versus heterogeneity

TJ Tegos, P Stavropoulos, MM Sabetai… - European Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Objective: to identify the echoicity and heterogeneity of carotid plaques associated with
ipsilateral symptomatic and asymptomatic neurovascular presentations. Design: cross …

Significance of sonographic tissue and surface characteristics of carotid plaques

TJ Tegos, KJ Kalomiris, MM Sabetai… - American journal …, 2001 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our hypothesis was that symptomatic and asymptomatic
carotid plaques are different. The aim of this study was to identify the sonographic tissue and …

[BOOK][B] Characteristics of carotid plaque findings on ultrasonography and black blood magnetic resonance imaging in comparison with pathological findings

D Arai, S Yamaguchi, M Murakami, T Nakakuki… - 2011 - Springer
Background: Criteria to decide whether carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery
stenting (CAS) is the best mode of therapy in a specific case of cervical carotid stenosis have …

A critical appraisal of the performance, reporting, and interpretation of studies comparing carotid plaque imaging with histology

JK Lovett, JNE Redgrave, PM Rothwell - Stroke, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Carotid plaque instability is an important determinant of stroke
risk. There are now a number of different imaging techniques that provide information on …

[HTML][HTML] Histologic characterization of mobile and nonmobile carotid plaques detected with ultrasound imaging

T Funaki, K Iihara, S Miyamoto, K Nagatsuka… - Journal of vascular …, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES:: Although mobile plaques in the carotid arteries detected by duplex
ultrasound imaging are considered to cause unstable neurologic symptoms such as …

Reproducibility of histological assessment of carotid plaque: implications for studies of carotid imaging

JK Lovett, PJ Gallagher, PM Rothwell - Cerebrovascular diseases, 2004 - karger.com
Background: Thromboembolism from carotid plaque is an important cause of stroke.
Identification of unstable plaque would therefore be clinically useful. Unfortunately, studies …

Computer-assisted carotid plaque analysis: characteristics of plaques associated with cerebrovascular symptoms and cerebral infarction

LM Pedro, MM Pedro, I Goncalves, TF Carneiro… - European Journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective: to correlate the echostructural characteristics of carotid plaques with neurological
symptoms and cerebral infarcts. Materials: one hundred and five plaques were studied in 74 …

Reproducibility in ultrasonic characterization of carotid plaques

JM De Bray, JM Baud, P Delanoy, JP Camuzat… - Cerebrovascular …, 1998 - karger.com
Background and Purpose: Echolucent carotid plaques compared with echogenic plaques
could carry a significant risk of transient ischemic attacks and strokes, but the reproducibility …

Histologic characterization of carotid plaques

H Van Damme, M Vivario, J Boniver, R Limet - Cardiovascular Pathology, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract From January 1988 to December 1989, we performed a total of 278 carotid
thromboendarterectomies. The plaque was systematically prepared for …