Diffuse calcifications protect carotid plaques regardless of the amount of neoangiogenesis and related histological complications.

Francesco VasuriSilvia FittipaldiRodolfo PiniAlessio DegiovanniRaffaella MauroAntonia D'Errico-GrigioniGianluca FaggioliAndrea StellaGianandrea Pasquinelli

Published in: BioMed research international (2015)

Plaques with massive calcifications show the same incidence of histological complications but without influencing symptomatology, especially in female patients, and regardless of the amount of neoangiogenesis. These results can be applied in a future presurgical identification of patients at major risk of developing symptoms.

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