Table 3.

Comparison between stent retriever and contact aspiration thrombectomy in practice.

	Stent retriever	Contact aspiration
Delivery to the target lesion	Not difficult	Occasionally difficult
Help in differentiation in ICAS-related from embolic LVO during the procedure (7, 13)*	Yes	No
First-pass recanalization success (23)	Higher	Lower

^*, by disclosing occlusion type (truncal-type or branching-site occlusion). Truncal-type is suggestive of intracranial atherosclerosis related large vessel occlusion.