ABSTRACT
The endovascular surgeons’ armamentarium is expanding at an exponential rate. New tools and materials are being developed and introduced into clinical practice at a dizzying pace, while current devices are continuously being modified for improved safety, efficacy, and navigation in the tortuous cerebrovascular environment. With these advancements, standard angiographic and interventional techniques are evolving and innovative methods and procedures are being introduced into the endovascular arena, enabling more effective treatment of a larger variety of neurovascular and spinal diseases that were previously too challenging to access or complex to successfully cure. In this chapter, we discuss techniques commonly used in neurointerventional practice. While a comprehensive review of all the devices available to the endovascular surgeon is beyond the scope of this chapter, we provide illustrative examples of the devices used in the endovascular treatment of intracranial, extracranial/cervical, and spinal diseases in our clinical practice.
