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NTN DEVICE AIDS TREATMENT OF CEREBRAL ANEURYSMS.

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TOKYO, March 1 Asia Pulse - NTN Corp. (TSE:6472) has developed a device that gives surgeons a numerical reading of the forces they are applying when inserting a wire into a patient to treat cerebral aneurysms.

Endovascular therapy for cerebral aneurysms involves placing a coil around the aneurysm to prevent it from rupturing. To deliver this coil to the site of the aneurysm, a catheter is inserted into a blood vessel in the groin, and the surgeon then threads the wire to the brain while watching images captured with a computerized tomography, or CT, scanner.

NTN's new device, developed in collaboration with the Nagoya Institute of Technology, uses a ...

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