The Learning Curve for Coil Embolization of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
Vineeta Singha,
Daryl R. Gressa,
Randall T. Higashidab,
Christopher F. Dowdb,
Van V. Halbachb and
S. Claiborne Johnstona
a Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
b the Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, University of California, San Francisco

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FIG 1. Plot shows the cumulative proportion of cases with complications by practitioner experience. The proportion with complications decreases with increasing physician experience, which is represented by the number of cases that each practitioner treated previously.
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FIG 2. Graph shows the proportion with complications by practitioner experience. Cases were rank-ordered for each practitioner and grouped accordingly.
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