Internal thoracic artery to middle cerebral artery bypass surgery: cadaveric feasibility study

A few options of extracranial donor vessels exist for utilization in intracranial vascular bypass procedures. To our knowledge, the use of an internal thoracic artery for cerebral revascularization has not been studied previously. Hence, this cadaveric feasibility study was performed.

Source: World Neurosurgery - January 12, 2018 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Stephen Monteith, Oded Goren, Ragu Sampath, Eric Lehr, Akshal Patel, Paul J. Choi, Joe Iwanaga, Marios Loukas, R. Shane Tubbs Tags: Original article Source Type: research