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The Endovascular Center
Endovascular surgical neuroradiology, also known as endovascular neurosurgery, is a recently developed specialty that has undergone rapid evolution during its short existence. Originally developed by radiologists and neurosurgeons, minimally invasive techniques were developed to treat patients for whom conventional surgical techniques were not successful or for patients in need of treatment when no good conventional surgical options existed. Now, endovascular specialists use not only x-ray fluoroscopy but also ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), and even magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to guide their way through the body and visualize their operative procedures without making a conventional skin incision to see inside the body. Using microcatheters measuring less than one millimeter in diameter, the tools used to perform these procedures have improved dramatically in the last decade. There are very few places in the body that can no longer be reached using modern techniques and devices. Now, the spectrum of neurological disease amenable to endovascular treatment, in many cases endovascular cures, increases regularly.
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