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Terminal ICA Occlusion: The Utility of 6 mm × 30 mm Retrievable Stents

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An 81-year-old woman presented to the emergency with left-sided weakness of 2 h duration. The NIHSS score was 17; the ASPECTS score was 10, and CT angiogram confirmed the presence of right intracranial ICA occlusion but patent anterior and middle cerebral arteries. The patient was started on IV tPA and then transferred to the angiography suite.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammed A. Almekhlafi

  2. Department of Radiology, Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Mayank Goyal

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  1. Neurointerventional Surgery, Stroke Unit, Artemis Agrim Institute of Neuroscience, Gurgaon, India

    Vipul Gupta

  2. Division of Neurointerventional Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA

    Ajit S. Puri

  3. Department of Vascular Neurology and Neurointerventional Surgery, Artemis Agrim Institute of Neuroscience, Gurgaon, India

    Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy

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Almekhlafi, M.A., Goyal, M. (2019). Terminal ICA Occlusion: The Utility of 6 mm × 30 mm Retrievable Stents. In: Gupta, V., Puri, A., Parthasarathy, R. (eds) 100 Interesting Case Studies in Neurointervention: Tips and Tricks. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1346-2_85

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