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Exclusion of an internal carotid aneurysm by a covered stent
1Department of Vascular Surgery and Emergency Radiology, Hospital S. Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
The authors report a case of a patient with thromboembolic strokes caused by a high internal carotid artery aneurysm. Considering the position and the anatomic structure of this aneurysm the sac was excluded transluminally by placing an endovascular covered stent.