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Treatment of Atherosclerotic Disease at the Cervical Carotid Bifurcation: Current Status and Review of the Literature*
  
    	
J. J. Connors III, David Seidenwurm, Joan C. Wojak, Robert W. Hurst, Mary E. Jensen, Robert Wallace, Thomas Tomsick, John Barr, Charles Kerber, Eric Russell, Gary M. Nesbit, Allan J. Fox and Fong Y. Tsai

  
    	
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