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Beneficial Effect of Carotid Endarterectomy in Symptomatic Patients with High-Grade Carotid Stenosis

1991 • 8,040 citations

MRC European Carotid Surgery Trial: interim results for symptomatic patients with severe (70-99%) or with mild (0-29%) carotid stenosis

1991 • 3,163 citations

A Randomized Trial Comparing Ticlopidine Hydrochloride with Aspirin for the Prevention of Stroke in High-Risk Patients

1989 • 1,209 citations

The Harvard Cooperative Stroke Registry

1978 • 1,180 citations

North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Methods, patient characteristics, and progress.

1991 • 1,054 citations

A Randomized Trial of Aspirin and Sulfinpyrazone in Threatened Stroke

1978 • 933 citations

Para-aminosalicylic acid in tuberculosis; early results of clinical trials.

1947 • 797 citations

Controlled trial of aspirin in cerebral ischemia.

1977 • 633 citations

"AICLA" controlled trial of aspirin and dipyridamole in the secondary prevention of athero-thrombotic cerebral ischemia.

1983 • 615 citations

Survival and recurrence following stroke. The Framingham study.

1982 • 550 citations

Outcome in Patients with Asymptomatic Neck Bruits

1986 • 550 citations

The natural history of carotid arterial disease in asymptomatic patients with cervical bruits.

1984 • 521 citations

Carotid Plaque Hemorrhage

1982 • 357 citations

Carotid surgery versus medical therapy in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. The CASANOVA Study Group.

1991 • 344 citations

Clinical alert: benefit of carotid endarterectomy for patients with high-grade stenosis of the internal carotid artery. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Stroke and Trauma Division. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) investigators.

1991 • 344 citations

Intracranial Hemorrhage Following Surgical Revascularization for Treatment of Acute Strokes

1964 • 329 citations

Prognosis of transient ischemic attacks in the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project.

1990 • 323 citations

Carotid Endarterectomy for Cerebrovascular Insufficiency

1970 • 286 citations

Persantine Aspirin Trial in cerebral ischemia. Part II: Endpoint results. The American-Canadian Co-Operative Study group.

1985 • 284 citations

The Importance of Hemorrhage in the Relationship Between Gross Morphologic Characteristics and Cerebral Symptoms in 376 Carotid Artery Plaques

1983 • 279 citations

Stroke and mortality rate in carotid endarterectomy: 228 consecutive operations.

1977 • 263 citations

The Declining Incidence of Stroke

1979 • 252 citations

Study design for randomized prospective trial of carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic atherosclerosis. The Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study Group.

1989 • 251 citations

Asymptomatic Carotid Bruit

1978 • 246 citations

Three-year Results for 801 Patients and 917 Operations

1987 • 230 citations

The performance of endarterectomy for disease of the extracranial arteries of the head.

1984 • 211 citations

The practice of carotid endarterectomy in a large metropolitan area.

1984 • 208 citations

Acetylsalicylic acid in the prevention of stroke in patients with reversible cerebral ischemic attacks. A Danish cooperative study.

1983 • 192 citations

Results of Carotid Endarterectomies for Transient Ischemic Attacks-Five Years Later

1973 • 189 citations

High-dose acetylsalicylic acid after cerebral infarction. A Swedish Cooperative Study.

1987 • 180 citations

Internal carotid occlusion: a prospective study.

1983 • 179 citations

Transient Ischemic Attacks in a Community

1969 • 150 citations

Role of carotid endarterectomy in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. A Veterans Administration Cooperative Study.

1986 • 119 citations

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSIENT CEREBRAL ISCHÆMIA

1964 • 118 citations

Histologic characteristics of carotid artery plaque

1991 • 117 citations

Prognosis in patients with transient cerebral ischemic attacks

1968 • 114 citations

Asymptomatic carotid stenosis

1979 • 110 citations

Clinical Assessment of the Peroral Metopirone Test

1965 • 99 citations

Can Clinical Evaluation and Noninvasive Testing Substitute for Arteriography in the Evaluation of Carotid Artery Disease?

1988 • 92 citations

Operation for acute completed stroke due to thrombosis of the internal carotid artery.

1969 • 89 citations

Emergency carotid endarterectomy for fluctuating neurologic deficits.

1981 • 86 citations

Antiplatelet agents in the secondary prevention of stroke: meta-analysis of the randomized control trials.

1988 • 84 citations

Intellectual impairment and cerebral lesions in multiple cerebral infarcts. A clinical-computed tomography study.

1988 • 83 citations

Life Expectancy and Late Stroke Following Carotid Endarterectomy

1983 • 83 citations

Emergency Carotid Artery Surgery in Neurologically Unstable Patients

1976 • 82 citations

Carotid endarterectomy in the stroke patient: Computerized axial tomography to determine timing

1985 • 82 citations

Carotid Endarterectomy Without Angiography

1990 • 81 citations

Declining incidence and mortality of stroke?

1984 • 81 citations

Prognosis among survivors of ischemic stroke

1968 • 81 citations

Timing of carotid endarterectomy after acute stroke

1990 • 79 citations

Timing of carotid artery endarterectomy after stroke.

1985 • 73 citations

The effect of anticoagulant therapy on the prognosis of patients with transient cerebral ischemic attacks in a community: Rochester, Minnesota, 1955 through 1969.

1973 • 71 citations

Neurologic sequelae of unilateral carotid artery occlusion: Immediate and late

1989 • 71 citations

Anticoagulant therapy in cerebrovascular disease: review and meta-analysis.

1988 • 70 citations

Noninvasive Assessment of Stroke Risk in Asymptomatic and Nonhemispheric Patients with Suspected Carotid Disease

1985 • 67 citations

Early carotid endarterectomy in patients with small, fixed neurologic deficits.

1984 • 65 citations

Vascular surgery in the United States

1987 • 64 citations

Timing of carotid artery endarterectomy after stroke

1985 • 62 citations

The Diminishing Role of Diagnostic Arteriography in Carotid Artery Disease: Duplex Scanning as Definitive Preoperative Study

1991 • 60 citations

The Willis lecture: transient ischemic attacks, scientific method, and new realities.

1991 • 56 citations

Early carotid endarterectomy in patients with small, fixed neurologic deficits

1984 • 54 citations

Natural history of cerebral thrombosis nine to nineteen year follow-up

1968 • 50 citations

Emergency Carotid Thromboendarterectomy

1971 • 50 citations

Mortality from and incidence of stroke in Stockholm.

1986 • 47 citations

Carotid endarterectomy in a metropolitan community: The early results after 8535 operations

1988 • 45 citations

Evaluating Quality, Cost-effective Health Care Vascular Database Predicated on Hospital Discharge Abstracts

1991 • 45 citations

The significance of cerebral infarction and atrophy in patients with amaurosis fugax and transient ischemic attacks in relation to internal carotid artery stenosis: A preliminary report

1988 • 40 citations

Carotid artery surgery in patients with minor stroke

1983 • 37 citations

Carotid endarterectomy after a completed stroke: Reduction in long-term neurologic deterioration

1985 • 37 citations

Carotid Surgery Without Arteriography: Noninvasive Selection of Patients

1991 • 36 citations

The long-term results of carotid endarterectomy for transient ischemic attacks

1986 • 32 citations

The value of carotid endarterectomy in reducing the morbidity and mortality of recurrent stroke

1986 • 30 citations

Late survival after carotid endarterectomy for transient ischemic attacks

1984 • 29 citations

Aspirin failure in symptomatic atherosclerotic carotid artery disease.

1981 • 29 citations

Carotid endarterectomy in patients with territorial transient ischemic attacks

1988 • 26 citations

Carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis: An update

1991 • 23 citations

Antiplatelet therapy and carotid plaque hemorrhage and its clinical implications.

1990 • 23 citations

Clinical management of cerebral ischemia

1973 • 21 citations

Carotid endarterectomy for nonhemispheric symptoms: Predictors of success

1984 • 19 citations

Results from 88 consecutive prophylactic carotid endarterectomies in cerebral infarction and transitory ischemic attacks

2009 • 17 citations

Caution falling rock zone: an analysis of the medical and surgical management of threatened stroke.

1980 • 17 citations

Transient cerebral ischemia: Review of surgical results

1980 • 14 citations

Data from CT Scans: The Significance of Silent Cerebral Infarction and Atrophy

1988 • 7 citations

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1955 • 0 citations