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Submitted on November 2, 2005
Accepted on February 3, 2006

Does the Merci Retriever Work? For

Jeffrey L. Saver MD^*

From the Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California, Los Angeles.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jsaver{at}ucla.edu.

Key words: acute stroke • brain ischemia • clinical trials • embolectomy • therapeutics

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