Endarterectomy

Endarterectomy is a surgical procedure removing plaque material from the lining of an artery.
Review Date: 07/29/2009
Reviewed By: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and David
C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General
Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School
of Medicine. Previously reviewed by Daniel B. Hoch, PhD, MD,
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital.













