General anaesthesia versus local anaesthesia for carotid surgery (GALA): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
BACKGROUND: The effect of carotid endarterectomy in lowering the risk of stroke ipsilateral to severe atherosclerotic carotid-artery stenosis is offset by complications during or soon after surgery. We compared surgery under general anaesthesia with that under local anaesthesia because prediction a...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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