Acute Vertebral Artery Origin Occlusion Leading to Basilar Artery Thrombosis Successfully Treated by Angioplasty with Stenting and Intracranial Fibrinolysis

There are few reports describing stroke due to the acute occlusion of the vertebral artery (VA) origin successfully treated by endovascularily. The authors report a case of 78-year-old man suffering from stroke owing to acute VA origin occlusion associated with contralateral hypoplastic VA leading t...

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Main Authors: Noriaki Matsubara, Shigeru Miyachi, Takao Kojima, Yoshinori Nakai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology 2013-02-01
Series:Neurointervention
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Online Access:http://neurointervention.org/upload/pdf/ni-8-41.pdf