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Although a definitive evaluation of the benefit of brain revascularization surgery of the carotid circulation in patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency is not yet possible, encouraging results of several individual series of patients have been published. As a result, additional indications for brain revascularization procedures have been suggested, among them vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI). The first extra-intracranial arterial bypass (EIAB) to the posterior circulation was performed in 1975 by AUSMAN (1). Since then SUNDT and PIEPGRAS (10), KHODADAD (7), ROSKI et al. (9), and OLTEANU-NERBE et al. (8) have presented their experiences with small series of patients.
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Olteanu-Nerbe, V., Schmiedek, P., Marguth, F. (1985). Brain Revascularization Surgery for Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency Due to Obstructive Vertebral Artery Disease. In: Dietz, H., Brock, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Extra-Intracranial Vascular Anastomoses Microsurgery at the Edge of the Tentorium. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70603-5_11
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