title: Carotid and vertebral stenting: preliminary report.
abstract: We report our initial experience of carotid and vertebral stenting. Three haemodynamically significant extra-cranial lesions (% diameter stenosis > 70) in 3 clinically symptomatic patients were treated by stenting between March 1996 and September 1996. Two lesions of the internal carotid arteries were ostial and in one case a subtotal stenosis and ostial lesion of the vertebral artery were observed. All lesions looked more widely and smoothly dilated by stenting than by ordinary standard balloon angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kochi Medical School; Kochi, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kazita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukuoka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori