Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 242-250 , February 2001

Carotid thromboendarterectomy for recent total occlusion of the internal carotid artery

Presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Association for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery, Toronto, Canada, Jun 11, 2000.

  • Gregory C. Kasper, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Alan R. Wladis, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Joann M. Lohr, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • L.Richard Roedersheimer, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Robert L. Reed, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Neurology Department Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Timothy J. Miller, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Neuroradiology Department, Good Samaritan Hospital. Cincinnati, Ohio
    • ,
  • Richard E. Welling, MD,

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory Cincinnati, Ohio

Received 12 June 2000 ,Accepted 21 September 2000.

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☆ Competition of interest: nil.

☆☆ Reprint requests to: Gregory C. Kasper, MD, c/o Kim Hasselfeld, Research 11J, Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220 (e-mail: kimberly_hasselfeld@trihealth.com ).

PII: S0741-5214(01)87502-9

doi: 10.1067/mva.2001.112213

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 242-250 , February 2001

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