PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Singer, R J
AU  - Dake, M D
AU  - Norbash, A
AU  - Abe, T
AU  - Marcellus, M L
AU  - Marks, M P
TI  - Covered stent placement for neurovascular disease.
DP  - 1997 Mar 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 507--509
VI  - 18
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/3/507.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/3/507.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1997 Mar 01; 18
AB  - We describe an endovascular technique in which covered stents were used to occlude a parent vessel. In one patient, with a giant paraclinoid aneurysm, a Gortex-covered Palmaz stent was used to occlude the cervical internal carotid artery and to create thrombosis in the aneurysm. In the second patient, with a high-flow vertebrojugular fistula, a hooded stent provided definitive treatment after an attempt to close the fistula by detachable balloon therapy failed. Follow-up of these patients revealed stable stent position and no untoward effects of permanent vessel occlusion.