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Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of atherosclerotic basilar artery stenosis
E Houdart1, F Ricolfi, P Brugières
1Department of Neuroradiology, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France.
Neuroradiology
|May 1, 1996
Symptomatic intracranial involvement of vertebral and basilar arteries by atherosclerosis is not accessible to surgical treatment. We report a case of major basilar artery stricture responsible for haemodynamic strokes treated successfully by percutaneous dilatation.
Symptomatic intracranial involvement of vertebral and basilar arteries by atherosclerosis is not accessible to surgical treatment. We report a case of major basilar artery stricture responsible for haemodynamic strokes treated successfully by percutaneous dilatation.