About the Authors
- James V. Byrne
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* E-mail: james.byrne@nds.ox.ac.uk
Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Radu Beltechi
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Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Julia A. Yarnold
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Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jacqueline Birks
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mudassar Kamran
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Affiliation Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
This study was supported by the manufacturer of the SILK flow diverter (Balt Extrusion) through a grant made to the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford. They informed the Oxford Neurovascular and Neuroradiology Research Unit (ONNRU) of centres using the Silk Flow Diverter and ONNRU invited the centres to participate, and independently collected and audited data. The sponsor was shown the final manuscript and invited to make comments at the draft stage which the authors were free to accept or reject in drafting the manuscript. The authors declare the following: JV Byrne has acted as an unpaid scientific advisor for Siemens AG, a trainer for Boston Scientific Corporation and is a scientific advisor board member for Codman Corporation. M Kamran is funded by the Rhodes Trust. J Birks is funded by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JVB. Analyzed the data: JB MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB JY. Wrote the paper: JVB MK. Principal investigator: JVB. Collected the data: RB JY MK.