Direct Brachial Approach for Acute Basilar Artery Occlusion: Technical Note and Preliminary Clinical Experience

In mechanical endovascular thrombectomy (MET) for acute basilar artery occlusion (ABAO) in the elderly, navigating a guide catheter via the femoral artery may be difficult due to the approach route’s significant tortuosity. To resolve this problem, we have been performing a technique that uses a dir...

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Main Authors: Teishiki Shibata, Masahiro Oomura, Yusuke Nishikawa, Mitsuhito Mase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology 2020-03-01
Series:Neurointervention
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Online Access:http://neurointervention.org/upload/pdf/neuroint-2019-00290.pdf