Ecker RD, Tsujiura CA, Baker CM, et al. Endovascular reconstruction of vertebral artery occlusion prior to basilar thrombectomy in a series of six patients presenting with acute symptomatic basilar thrombosis. J NeuroIntervent Surg 2014;6:379–83. The last sentence of the abstract conclusions should read ‘However, basilar thrombosis continues to be a devastating illness, with one-third of the patients in this series dying of progressive infarction despite angiographic patency of the large conduit vessels without technical complications.’