Tag: extracranial

Open and endovascular surgery recommended over ligation in ruptured extracranial carotid...

Both open and endovascular surgical approaches are likely to produce improved outcomes compared to ligation in the treatment of ruptured extracranial carotid artery aneurysms....

Randomised trial fails to show benefit with bypass surgery in symptomatic...

The initial findings from a recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) do not support the addition of extracranial to intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery to the...
vertebral artery stenting

CX 2021: Stenting should be reserved for the extracranial vertebral arteries...

Stenting is something that, for now at least, should be considered in the extracranial vertebral arteries only—and not the intracranial arteries—for symptomatic atherosclerotic stenosis,...