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Ultrasonographic and Histomorphometric Evaluation of Endarterectomy Samples from Carotid Lesions: New Perspectives in Qualitative Evaluation of B-Mode Ultrasound Images
Since the beginning of the 1980’s, various biomedical scientists have faced the problem of measuring and validating atherosclerotic lesion severity, extent and composition by ultrasound in large and medium art...
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The WHO-ISFC study on pathobiological determinants of atherosclerosis in youth (PBDAY): a first morphometric approach to aortic lesions
One of the aims of the PBDAY Study (WHO-ISFC) is to examine, both in children and young adults, the arterial structural changes which may determine the development of atherosclerosis, especially in its early s...
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Comparative evaluation of echographic and histomorphometric data of carotid endarterectomy samples
Stroke still represents in many countries one of the most frequent causes of death; atherosclerosis of the large extracranial arteries (chiefly the carotid arteries at bifurcation) has been correlated with cer...
