Efficacy and current limitations of intravascular stents for intracranial internal carotid, vertebral, and basilar artery aneurysms

OBJECT: Results of previous in vitro and in vivo experimental studies have suggested that placement of a porous stent within the parent artery across the aneurysm neck may hemodynamically uncouple the aneurysm from the parent vessel, leading to thrombosis of the aneurysm. For complex wide-necked ane... View More