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Carotid endarterectomy and simultaneous percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for tandem internal carotid stenoses
T Terada1, H Yokote, Y Kinoshita
1Department of Neurological Surgery, Wakayama Medical College, Japan.
Neuroradiology
|August 5, 1998
Abstract:
We treated three patients with tandem internal carotid stenoses in single procedures including carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for the proximal stenosis and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for the distal stenosis. We devised a Y-shaped shunt tube for the CEA, through which a balloon catheter was introduced to perform PTA guided by mobile digital subtraction angiography. No cerebrovascular events occurred during follow-up. Our approach avoids the risk of a second procedure while effectively treating tandem stenoses.