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Bilateral vessel-outlining carotid artery calcifications in panoramic radiographs: an independent risk marker for vascular events

BACKGROUND: In odontology, panoramic radiographs (PRs) are regularly performed. PRs depict the teeth and jaws as well as carotid artery calcifications (CACs). Patients with CACs on PRs have an increased risk of vascular events compared to healthy controls without CACs, but this association is often...

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Autores principales: Garoff, Maria, Ahlqvist, Jan, Edin, Linda-Tereza, Jensen, Sofia, Levring Jäghagen, Eva, Petäjäniemi, Fredrik, Wester, Per, Johansson, Elias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31619183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-019-1211-3