Asymptomatic carotid artery disease--should diabetics be treated?

Editorial

K Craig Kent. Surgery. 2008 Apr.

. 2008 Apr;143(4):572-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.01.004.

No abstract available

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