Background Primary balloon angioplasty (PBA) is an alternative treatment approach for intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis (ICAS); however, its efficacy may be compromised by arterial dissection or ...

Correspondence to Professor Matthew J Gounis, Department of Radiology, New England Center for Stroke Research, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ...

Background Minimally invasive intracranial drain placement is a common neurosurgical emergency procedure in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We aimed to retrospectively investigate the ...

Background Competitive leptomeningeal flow (CLF) can be observed immediately after mechanical thrombectomy (MT) reperfusion with retrograde contrast clearing of the distal leptomeningeal branches from ...

Background In patients with stroke, current guidelines recommend non-invasive vascular imaging to identify intracranial vessel occlusions (VO) that may benefit from endovascular treatment (EVT).

Background Patients with acute basilar artery occlusion (ABAO) who undergo combined standard medical treatment (SMT) and endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) may still have unsatisfactory outcomes. This ...