Abstract
Thromboembolectomy of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) was successfully performed by Welch in 1954 and a considerable number of patients underwent this procedure thereafter, with or without refinement of microsurgical techniques.2,9,15,17,18 The procedure lags, however, somewhat behind the superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery (STA-MCA) bypass pioneered by Yasargil and Donaghy in 1967.17 The purpose of this report is to present our experience with thromboembolectomy of the MCA in the acute stage on two cases and to reappraise the procedure.
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Yonekawa, Y., Handa, H., Terano, M., Teraura, T. (1980). Revascularization in the Acute Stage of the MCA Occlusion. In: Peerless, S.J., McCormick, C.W. (eds) Microsurgery for Cerebral Ischemia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6090-5_42
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