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Hemorrhagic stroke
Unusual thromboembolic complication during an anterior communicating artery aneurysm coiling
  1. Sumit Goyal,
  2. Subhash Kumar,
  3. Rohitash Sharma,
  4. Shakir Husain
  1. Department of Interventional Neurology, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr S Husain, Department of Interventional Neurology, Max Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi-110017, India; drshakir{at}gmail.com

Abstract

Thromboembolism during aneurysm coiling is a known complication with almost all thromboembolic phenomenon occurring ipsilateral to the side of vessel catheterization and sometimes bilaterally. A case is reported in which thromboembolism occurred exclusively on the opposite side of vessel catheterization, the first case to be reported, to our knowledge.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnis.2010.004457

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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