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Diagnostic accuracy of emergency CT angiography for presumed tandem internal carotid artery occlusion before acute endovascular therapy.

Marcelo RochaWilliam T DelfyettVikas AgarwalAmin AghaebrahimAshutosh JadhavTudor G Jovin
Published in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2017)
Emergency single phase CTA is highly sensitive but has reduced specificity to identify extracranial ICA occlusion in patients with intracranial ICA occlusion, which may confound planning for acute endovascular stroke therapy and cause over exclusion of patients with isolated ICA terminus occlusion from clinical trials.
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