Authors’ Response to Letter: Validation of Multiparametric Ultrasonography Criteria with Digital Subtraction Angiography in Carotid Artery Disease: A Prospective Multicenter Study

Ultraschall Med 2019; 40(04): 517
DOI: 10.1055/a-0890-4900

Letter to the Editor

Kristian Barlinn

¹Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

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Georg Gahn

²Department of Neurology, Municipal Hospital Karlsruhe gGmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Christos Krogias

³Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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Harald Mudra

⁴Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Muenchen-Neuperlach, Munich, Germany

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Andrei V. Alexandrov

⁵Department of Neurology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States

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Norbert Weiss

⁶Center for Vascular Medicine and Department of Medicine III, Division of Angiology

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Volker Puetz

¹Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

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