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In the March 2014 issue of J Neurointerv Surg, I read an article entitled ‘A history of detachable coils: 1987–2012’,1 in which the progressive development of detachable coils over the past 25 years was described. The article was interesting and gave the reader a sense of how, starting from a basic ‘game changer’ idea,2–6 events progressed in a steady fashion over time, in an effort to offer the best possible treatment to patients harboring brain aneurysms. However, on page 1 of the article, in the paragraph entitled ‘The first coil’, there are some comments, statements, and information that need to be corrected.
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As the inventor of the detachable coils (which is rightfully acknowledged by the authors), I was the first to test them.3 ,4 As such, I can state that the title of the article is incorrect and, for the sake of historical accuracy, should be changed to ‘A history of detachable coils: 1989–2012’. In other words, the ‘beginnings’ occurred in 1989 (not in …
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Competing interests I am the inventor of the Guglielmi detachable coils.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.