The nature and severity of the traumas causing t-BPPV are diverse, ranging from minor head injuries to more severe head and neck trauma with brief loss of consciousness. It appears that t-BPPV is more difficult to treat than i-BPPV, and also has a greater tendency to recur.

SILK is a relatively simple device to use, with a low rate of technical and clinical complications and a high short-term aneurysmal occlusion rate. In aneurysms smaller than 15 mm, the results are excellent. Results are also encouraging in the larger aneurysms, taking into consideration their complexity. The device characteristics and mainly its drawbacks must be well known by the users.

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