Objective: To provide more data on the outcome of conventional treatment. Methods: Data were analysed on patients from three centres with symptomatic basilar artery occlusion treated conventionally.

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangyang No. 1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, China 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ...

The current evidence on HR-VWI techniques for characterization of brain aneurysms is described in this review. Specific imaging approaches such as aneurysm wall contrast enhancement, MRI-quantitative ...

In 10 cases, the occlusion was in the ICA, with tandem distal lesions in ipsilateral branches of the middle cerebral artery. There were no cases of emboli to new territory following aspiration ...

Dr Bastiaan R Bloem, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. Telephone 0031 71 5262134; fax 0031 71 5248253; email ...

Obstruction of this large artery leads to a classic symptom picture ... and the amount of infarcted tissue. MRI is another option in the practitioner's diagnostic repertoire.

Virtually all regional acute myocardial infarcts are caused by thrombosis developing on a culprit coronary atherosclerotic plaque. The very rare exceptions to this are spontaneous coronary artery ...