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Does Doppler detection of asymptomatic embolization predict stroke risk in symptomatic carotid artery stenosis?

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boxed-textMarkus HS and MacKinnon A (2005) Asymptomatic embolization detected by Doppler ultrasound predicts stroke risk in symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. Stroke 36: 971–975

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The synopsis was written by Emma Campbell, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. McKinney-Avant Professor of Neurology, Head of the Section on Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease, and Medical Director of the Neuroultrasound Laboratory,

    Charles H Tegeler & Jongyeol Kim

  2. Assistant Professor of Neurology, at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, USA

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