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M Eliasziw

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1 Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med 1991 18.33
2 A randomized, controlled trial of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. N Engl J Med 2001 13.85
3 Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic moderate or severe stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med 1998 11.27
4 Sample size and optimal designs for reliability studies. Stat Med 1998 6.80
5 Endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis in relation to clinical subgroups and timing of surgery. Lancet 2004 5.93
6 Analysis of pooled data from the randomised controlled trials of endarterectomy for symptomatic carotid stenosis. Lancet 2003 5.90
7 The causes and risk of stroke in patients with asymptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med 2000 4.67
8 The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial : surgical results in 1415 patients. Stroke 1999 3.31
9 Sample size requirements for reliability studies. Stat Med 1987 3.15
10 Do the facts and figures warrant a 10-fold increase in the performance of carotid endarterectomy on asymptomatic patients? Neurology 1996 2.89
11 Causes and severity of ischemic stroke in patients with internal carotid artery stenosis. JAMA 2000 2.56
12 Risk, causes, and prevention of ischaemic stroke in elderly patients with symptomatic internal-carotid-artery stenosis. Lancet 2001 2.29
13 A goodness-of-fit approach to inference procedures for the kappa statistic: confidence interval construction, significance-testing and sample size estimation. Stat Med 1992 2.20
14 Randomised trialomania? The multicentre liver transplant trials of tacrolimus. Lancet 1995 2.04
15 Imaging of the brain in acute ischaemic stroke: comparison of computed tomography and magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005 1.86
16 Angiographically defined collateral circulation and risk of stroke in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Group. Stroke 2000 1.75
17 The Pittsburgh randomized trial of tacrolimus compared to cyclosporine for hepatic transplantation. J Am Coll Surg 1996 1.71
18 Drugs and surgery in the prevention of ischemic stroke. N Engl J Med 1995 1.71
19 Acute ischemic lesions of varying ages predict risk of ischemic events in stroke/TIA patients. Neurology 2007 1.66
20 Occurrence of hemispheric and retinal ischemia in atrial fibrillation compared with carotid stenosis. Stroke 2002 1.61
21 The risk of stroke in patients with first-ever retinal vs hemispheric transient ischemic attacks and high-grade carotid stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Arch Neurol 1995 1.59
22 The dilemma of surgical treatment for patients with asymptomatic carotid disease. Ann Intern Med 1995 1.50
23 Anterior cruciate ligament tear: prospective evaluation of diagnostic accuracy of middle- and high-field-strength MR imaging at 1.5 and 0.5 T. Radiology 1995 1.49
24 The identification by imaging methods of patients who might benefit from carotid endarterectomy. Arch Neurol 1995 1.37
25 Medical complications associated with carotid endarterectomy. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Stroke 1999 1.29
26 Burden of epilepsy: the Ontario Health Survey. Can J Neurol Sci 1999 1.24
27 Prognosis after transient monocular blindness associated with carotid-artery stenosis. N Engl J Med 2001 1.20
28 Risk factors and outcome of patients with carotid artery stenosis presenting with lacunar stroke. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Group. Neurology 2000 1.20
29 Clinically important change in quality of life in epilepsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002 1.17
30 Small, unruptured intracranial aneurysms and management of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Group. Neurology 2000 1.16
31 Long-term prognosis and effect of endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic severe carotid stenosis and contralateral carotid stenosis or occlusion: results from NASCET. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Group. J Neurosurg 1995 1.12
32 Aspirin dose in stroke prevention: beautiful hypotheses slain by ugly facts. Stroke 1996 1.11
33 Sex difference in the effect of time from symptoms to surgery on benefit from carotid endarterectomy for transient ischemic attack and nondisabling stroke. Stroke 2004 1.09
34 Methodology for inferences concerning familial correlations: a review. J Clin Epidemiol 1991 1.09
35 Importance of intracranial atherosclerotic disease in patients with symptomatic stenosis of the internal carotid artery. The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trail. Stroke 1999 1.08
36 The risks and benefits of carotid endarterectomy in patients with near occlusion of the carotid artery. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) Group. Neurology 1997 1.06
37 Diffuse vacuolization (spongiosis) and arteriolosclerosis in the frontal white matter occurs in vascular dementia. Arch Neurol 1996 1.02
38 Angiographic detection of carotid plaque ulceration. Comparison with surgical observations in a multicenter study. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Stroke 1994 0.99
39 Duration and distance of exposure are important predictors of transmission among community contacts of Ontario SARS cases. Epidemiol Infect 2007 0.96
40 Lack of relationship between leukoaraiosis and carotid artery disease. The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. Arch Neurol 1995 0.95
41 Statistical implications of the choice between a dichotomous or continuous trait in studies of interobserver agreement. Biometrics 1994 0.95
42 Statistical methodology for estimating twin similarity with respect to a dichotomous trait. Genet Epidemiol 1995 0.92
43 Internal borderzone infarction: a marker for severe stenosis in patients with symptomatic internal carotid artery disease. For the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy (NASCET) Group. Stroke 2000 0.92
44 Lack of difference in brain hyperintensities between patients with early Alzheimer's disease and control subjects. Arch Neurol 1994 0.92
45 Endarterectomy or angioplasty for treatment of carotid stenosis? Lancet 2001 0.92
46 Educational attainment and socioeconomic status of patients with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol 2000 0.91
47 Propofol sedation during awake craniotomy for seizures: patient-controlled administration versus neurolept analgesia. Anesth Analg 1997 0.90
48 HLA and cross-reactive antigen group matching for cadaver kidney allocation. Transplantation 1997 0.89
49 Postoperative cognitive impairment in the elderly. Choice of patient-controlled analgesia opioid. Anaesthesia 1996 0.88
50 Temporal lobe atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease. Arch Neurol 1993 0.88
51 Early endarterectomy for severe carotid artery stenosis after a nondisabling stroke: results from the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial. J Vasc Surg 1994 0.87
52 Evidence based cardiology: Prevention of ischaemic stroke. BMJ 1999 0.86
53 Testing the homogeneity of kappa statistics. Biometrics 1996 0.86
54 Effects of intermittent hypoxia on erythropoietin, soluble erythropoietin receptor and ventilation in humans. Eur Respir J 2010 0.85
55 Application and a proposed modification of the 2010 McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in a Canadian cohort of patients with clinically isolated syndromes. Mult Scler 2013 0.85
56 Long-term clinical and angiographic outcomes in symptomatic patients with 70% to 99% carotid artery stenosis. Stroke 2000 0.85
57 High Epstein-Barr virus-specific T-cell counts are associated with near-zero likelihood of acute myeloid leukemia relapse after hematopoietic cell transplantation. Leukemia 2011 0.84
58 Changes in quality of life in epilepsy: how large must they be to be real? Epilepsia 2001 0.82
59 Comparative evolution of Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia, and mixed dementia. Arch Neurol 1997 0.81
60 Propofol sedation during awake craniotomy for seizures: electrocorticographic and epileptogenic effects. Anesth Analg 1997 0.80
61 Safety of outpatient peripheral angioplasty. Radiology 1993 0.80
62 Effect of contralateral carotid artery stenosis on carotid ultrasound velocity measurements. Stroke 2000 0.80
63 Treatment of asymptomatic arteriosclerotic carotid artery disease. Adv Neurol 2003 0.80
64 Risk factors for cervical atherosclerosis in patients with transient ischemic attack or minor ischemic stroke. Stroke 1994 0.79
65 Review of inference procedures for the interclass correlation coefficient with emphasis on applications to family studies. Genet Epidemiol 1998 0.78
66 Influence of HLA and CREG matching in African-American primary cadaver kidney recipients: UNOS 1991-1995. Transplant Proc 1997 0.78
67 A comparison of methods for testing homogeneity of proportions in teratologic studies. Stat Med 1994 0.78
68 Timing of carotid endarterectomy after stroke. Stroke 1998 0.77
69 Application of matched pair procedures to site-specific data in periodontal research. J Clin Periodontol 1991 0.77
70 Propofol and hyperventilation for the treatment of increased intracranial pressure in rabbits. Anesth Analg 1998 0.77
71 A general goodness-of-fit approach for inference procedures concerning the kappa statistic. Stat Med 2001 0.77
72 Effect of HLA mismatch in African-Americans. Transplantation 1998 0.77
73 Long-term prognosis and the effect of carotid endarterectomy in patients with recurrent ipsilateral ischemic events. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Group. Neurology 1996 0.76
74 MR imaging field strength: prospective evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of MR for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at 0.5 and 1.5 T. Radiology 1995 0.75
75 Aspirin benefit remains elusive in primary stroke prevention. Arch Neurol 2000 0.75
76 Re 'The accuracy of carotid duplex testing: there is no problem'. Stroke 1996 0.75
77 Reliability of visual temporal thresholds. Can J Neurol Sci 2007 0.75
78 Quantification of multiple sclerosis lesion volumes in 1.5 and 0.5 T anisotropically filtered and unfiltered MR exams. Med Phys 1996 0.75
79 Identifying reliable change in tactile temporal thresholds in multiple sclerosis: test-retest reliability. Mult Scler 2006 0.75
80 Rate of change of cerebral blood flow velocity with hyperventilation during anesthesia in humans. Can J Anaesth 2000 0.75
81 Carotid endarterectomy: emerging indications. Baillieres Clin Neurol 1995 0.75
82 Stereotaxic percutaneous core biopsy versus surgical biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions using a standard mammographic table with an add-on device. Can Assoc Radiol J 2001 0.75
83 A hierarchical approach to inferences concerning interobserver agreement for multinomial data. Stat Med 1997 0.75
84 Treatment of symptomatic arteriosclerotic carotid artery disease. Adv Neurol 2003 0.75
85 Stenosis of the carotid bifurcation: subjective assessment compared with strict measurement guidelines. Can Assoc Radiol J 1993 0.75
86 The variability of manual and computer assisted quantification of multiple sclerosis lesion volumes. Med Phys 1996 0.75
87 Collaborative Evaluation of the Healthy Habits Program: An Effective Community Intervention to Improve Mobility and Cognition of Chinese Older Adults Living in the U.S. J Nutr Health Aging 2016 0.75
88 Technology assessment in Canada: comparison of magnetic field strength in the assessment of complex partial seizures. Acad Radiol 1996 0.75