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Edited by Alain Branchereau and Michael Jacobs. 284 pp., illustrated. Armonk, N.Y., Futura, 1998. $110. ISBN 0-87993-403-4.

This is a timely book. Despite voluminous data from large-scale randomized trials that have allowed evidence-based use of endarterectomy in the treatment of carotid atherosclerosis, catheter-based endoluminal therapies are challenging endarterectomy as the best treatment of this disease. Balloon angioplasty of the carotid artery, along with stent placement, is being increasingly used by interventionalists and surgeons, but its exact role, as compared with that of carotid endarterectomy, is undefined. This subject, as well as other controversial issues in the management of carotid artery disease, forms the basis of the book, which emanated from an international symposium in 1998. The interval . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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