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afford this method of treatment. The lack of available endovascular expertise in many state and academic hospitals is related in part to the high costs related to these cases, but also to a lack of neurointerventional expertise within many academic and state institutions. Neither interventional radiology nor neurointervention is recognised locally as a subspeciality despite the availability of such expertise in the four major centres. As a result there is extremely limited exposure by radiologists or neurosurgeons-in-training to these techniques in South Africa.