Vertebrobasilar atherosclerotic disease: is it time to revisit angioplasty?

نویسندگان

  • Sepideh Amin-Hanjani
  • Adnan H Siddiqui
  • Tanya N Turan
  • Henry Woo
  • Shyam Prabhakaran
  • Colin P Derdeyn
  • Fady T Charbel
چکیده

Editor Felipe C. Albuquerque Associate Editors Michael Chen Christophe Cognard Lucas Elijovich David Fiorella Joshua Hirsch William Mack J Mocco Associate Editor, Basic Science Matthew Gounis Assistant Editors, Social Media Reade DeLeacy Andrew Ducruet Kyle Fargen Ashutosh Jadhav Editor Emeritus Robert W. Tarr SNIS Executive Director Marie Williams Editorial Office Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery BMJ Publishing Group Ltd BMA House Tavistock Square London, WC1H 9JR, UK T: +44 (0)20 7383 6170 E: [email protected] Guidelines for authors and reviewers Full instructions are available online at http:// JNIS.bmj.com/ifora. Articles must be submitted electronically http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ jnis. Authors retain copyright but are required to grant JNIS an exclusive licence to publish http://JNIS.bmj.com/ifora/licence.dtl ISSN: 1759-8478 (print) ISSN: 1759-8486 (online) Twitter: @JNIS_BMJ

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurointerventional surgery

دوره 9 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017