Balloon Occlusion Tests and Therapeutic Vessel Occlusions Revisited: When, When Not, and How

The concept of therapeutic occlusion of arteries to and in the brain is old, with Cooper describing a carotid artery ligation performed in 1805,[1][1] and Matas, a vertebral artery sacrifice in 1893.[2][2] The potentially deleterious effect of losing a carotid artery was even known in ancient Greece