Moving vessel wall research beyond the plaque: basilar artery dilation as a window to systemic cardiovascular events
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
|August 16, 2013
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Editorialscardiovascular diseasescerebrovascular disordersheart diseasesintracranial vascular disordersstrokevascular diseases, intracranialvertebrobasilar dolichoectasiaMore Related Videos
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