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Release Date: November 30, 2005 This content is archived.
An article in The New York Times on the controversy over treating carotid artery disease with stents rather than surgery quotes L. Nelson Hopkins, professor and chair of neurosurgery, who said "We are beginning to see results that make us believers that carotid stents will replace endarterectomy, and that it's only a matter of time." Go to article.