“…13,22,23 Furthermore, extracranial carotid artery calcifications are associated with carotid artery stenosis in asymptomatic patients, but in symptomatic patients this association is less clear. [24][25][26] Moreover, calcifications can be assessed easily and quantified at MDCTA, an imaging modality increasingly used in daily clinical work-up of patients with stroke, making them a suitable and robust marker of atherosclerosis.…”