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Angioplasty and stenting for cerebrovascular disease: current status.

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Neurosurgery clinics of North America (impact factor: 1.73). 08/2008; 19(3):433-45, vi. DOI:10.1016/j.nec.2008.07.012 pp.433-45, vi
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ABSTRACT Only 10 years ago, a review of the use of stents to treat cerebrovascular disease would have resulted in a limited report. Currently, however, stents increasingly are used in clinical practice, and this trend is expected to grow exponentially as a result of constant technologic improvements and refinements and cross-fertilization from several fields of medicine, science, technology, business, and industry. Cerebrovascular conditions, which so far have been demonstrated to, and may benefit from the use of stents, include atheromatous disease, broad-based cerebral aneurysms, arterial dissections, and venous occlusive disease causing increased intracranial pressure.

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Keywords

arterial dissections
 
broad-based cerebral aneurysms
 
Cerebrovascular conditions
 
cerebrovascular disease
 
constant technologic improvements
 
cross-fertilization
 
exponentially
 
venous occlusive disease