Dinc, Hasan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0738-1809
Saatci, Isil http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1690-5501
Oguz, Sukru http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1354-8898
Baltacioglu, Feyyaz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9090-6716
Yildiz, Altan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2379-3878
Donmez, Halil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-4769
Belet, Umit http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4550-5435
Onal, Baran http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2830-3068
Andic, Cagatay http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8581-8685
Koc, Osman http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2123-4589
Kocak, Omer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-2206
Koroglu, Mert http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1937-5761
Cetin, Mustafa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3506-2039
Cekirge, H.Saruhan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4521-2301
Article History
Received: 1 September 2020
Accepted: 16 December 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Isil Saatci (Cekirge): Consultancy and Proctorship agreements with Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis, USA) and MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA).Feyyaz Baltacioglu: Financial support for attending symposia and educational programs MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA), Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis, USA), and Stryker (Neurovascular, Freemont, CA, USA).H.Saruhan Cekirge: Consultancy and Proctorship agreements with Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis, USA) and MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA) and shareholder of NDI Technologies, eLUM Technologies Inc., and Vesalio LLC.The remaining authors declare they have no competing interest.
: • All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.• The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the organizing institution (Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine Ethical Committee: (24237859-85).• Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.