Symptomatic Carotid Web: a Rare Cause of Stroke
Henrique Guedes da Rocha1, Pedro Sá Pinto1
1Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, ULS Santo António, Porto, Portugal.
Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
|January 26, 2025
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