Fig. 3

This 53-year-old patient showed an occlusion of the middle m2 segment. The initial NIHSS was 14 and symptoms were hemiparesis with predominant right arm involvement and loss of speech. The occlusion (white star) is shown in the anterior–posterior (a1) and sagittal (a2) plane before intervention. b showes the intervention. c1 was the anterior–posterior, c2 the sagittal plane after the intervention