Emergency cervical internal carotid artery stenting in combination with intracranial thrombectomy in acute stroke - Stampfl, Sibylle; Ringleb, Peter A.; Möhlenbruch, Markus Alfred; Hametner, Christian; Herweh, Christian; Pham, Mirko; Bösel, Julian; Hähnel, Stefan; Bendszus, Martin; Rohde, Stefan (American journal of neuroradiology, 2014)
In past years, thrombectomy has become a widely used procedure in interventional neuroradiology for the treatment of acute intracranial occlusions. However, in 10-20% of patients, there are additional occlusions or stenotic lesions of the ipsilateral cervical internal carotid artery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of emergency carotid artery stent placement in combination with intracranial thrombectomy and the clinical outcome of the treated patients