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We reported the first successful use of a Solitaire stent for mechanical thrombectomy as a treatment for acute ischemic stroke.1 Nothing else!
The suspicious judgment of priority claims2 has a long history in radiology (eg, Wilhelm Röntgen never filed a patent for his discovery of x-rays). However, the senior author of the paper under discussion …
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