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- Mark Lambert
- Senior registrar in public health medicine Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds L52 9PL
EDITOR,—Many of those who commented in the debate on carotid endarterectomy suggested that the use of non-invasive tests for carotid stenosis can transform the balance of risks and benefits to patients of a service for carotid endarterectomy.1 2 This may overstate the case.
These tests should firstly be exposed to a more comprehensive formal evaluation; it should not stop at small case series assessing only accuracy, as this represents an inadequate assessment of these technologies. The acceptability, …
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