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. 2023 May 5;7(3):zrad058.
doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrad058.

Carotid plaque ulceration: unquantified predictor of stroke

Luke C Smith  1 , Jonathan P Funnell  2 , Toby Richards  3 , Lawrence M J Best  4
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Carotid plaque ulceration: unquantified predictor of stroke

Luke C Smith et al. BJS Open. .
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Fig. 1
Forest plot of results for stroke at maximal follow-up comparing patients with carotid artery stenosis with ulceration versus those without ulceration at baseline M-H, Mantel-Haenszel method.
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Fig. 2
Forest plot of results for time to stroke comparing patients with carotid artery stenosis with ulceration versus those without ulceration at baseline SE, standard error; IV, inverse variance.
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