Indications and Problems of Intracranial Stenting Report of Two Cases

Abstract

There have been few reports of stenting in the intracranial arteries. We used coronary stents in the chronically occluded intracranial vertebral artery and stenosis of internal carotid artery by the external force, and good blood flow were resumed. Stenosis in the intracranial arteries is also a good indication for stent placement when it is due to chronic total occlusion or artery compression by external force. But stent placement in the intracranial arteries has some problems. Stent placement in the intracranial artery is indicated only when the site of stent placement has a diameter of 3 mm or more, is a relatively linear portion of the vertebrobasilar artery or the internal carotid artery proximal to the C3 segment, and does not branch off perforating arteries or is already completely occluded.

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intracranial artery stent chronic total occlusion

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