The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial

Ferguson et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7608ff44a16d01ef30ae3 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.30.9.1751

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