title: Intravenous digital subtraction angiography for extracranial carotid artery disease.
abstract: Intravenous digital subtraction angiography is relatively hazardous and inaccurate. It appears from the literature to have little place in either the screening of patients with putative carotid artery disease or in the assessment of those about to undergo carotid endarterectomy.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Murie
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000009:adverse effects; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans