How about doing a literature search at 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/? I found quite a few.

JPH

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>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:00 -0500
>From: "Claudia A. Benge" <[log in to unmask]> 
>Subject: Re: Carotid correlation  
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>Suggest your surgeon go to an advanced vascular 
interpretation course through 
>the Society of Vascular Ultrasound...
>There are articles published that compare MRA/CTA with 
carotid ultrasound and 
>I think even angiograms in combination. There is no way that 
the MRA/CTA 
>compare to the angiograms...Claudia
>
>Quoting "Myers, Ruth" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Does anyone out there know of any literature that 
compares carotid duplex
>> criteria with MRAs?  For years we have been using 
internally validated
>> criteria for carotids that compared well to angiography.  
Since the advent
>> of MRA, however, our surgeons order very few angiograms 
but lots of MRAs.
>> Now our surgeon feels that our duplex reading criteria are 
not valid, since
>> the MRAs tend to over-call (?) lesions.  He wants to use 
other criteria,
>> such as the Washington criteria for reading, but since the 
published
>> criteria that I know of were based on comparison to 
the "gold-standard"
>> angiograms, and not MRAs, I worry that comparison with 
MRA still might not
>> be valid-  any comments or recommendations?
>> 
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