title: Advancing loop technique for endovascular access to the anterior cerebral artery.
abstract: Direct endovascular access to the anterior cerebral artery (ACA) with a guidewire and catheter is not always possible. A C-shaped guidewire advanced as a loop into the middle cerebral artery and then withdrawn to advance the guidewire into the ACA is a way to gain endovascular access to the ACA when the direct approach is unsuccessful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Clinical Science Center E1/334, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53792, USA.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Graves
mesh_terms: D017130:Angioplasty / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000628:therapy*; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000628:therapy*