Atherosclerosis of the brachiocephalic vessels is uncommon in comparison to the prevalence of disease in the extracranial carotid arteries ... the natural history of subclavian artery occlusive ...

A right subclavian incision was made, and the right axillary artery was exposed ... During core cooling, the innominate and left common carotid arteries were dissociated from surrounding tissue and ...

Introduction Coronary artery calcification (CAC) and especially progression in CAC is a strong predictor of acute myocardial infarction and cardiovascular mortality. Supplementation with vitamin K2 ...

Here’s what happens in your body when you have high cholesterol: The waxy cholesterol builds up in artery walls and contributes to plaque, a hard deposit that narrows and clogs the arteries. (You may ...

Axillary lymph node recurrence in NPC is uncommon. Case description: A 44-year-old male presented with two-month history of painless swelling of the right axilla. He was diagnosed with stage IVB UNPC ...

Ultrasound of extracranial (mostly including axillary artery) as well as cranial arteries has higher sensitivity and comparable specificity to only scanning cranial arteries. The results of this ...

All patients underwent an US exam of temporal and extracranial arteries (carotid, subclavian and axillary) at baseline. Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/CT was performed according to ...

The benefit of regional nodal irradiation in the treatment of breast cancer is well established for patients with pathologically positive axillary nodes, but whether it is also beneficial for ...

However, several groups of patients presenting with angina pectoris and normal coronary arteries do not fall into the strict definition of syndrome X, including those with predominant rest angina, ...

Introduction Patients with node-positive breast cancer having primary surgery currently undergo axillary node clearance (ANC) to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. Evidence that this highly ...

Little can be described about subclavian or femoral vein approaches ... puncture is also routinely indicated for puncture of femoral veins and arteries, and radial arteries. Axillary vein puncture is ...