Management of elderly patients with incidentally discovered unruptured aneurysms

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 679-684

  Yasui, Toshihiro ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Kishi, Hiroshige ^a   Komiyama, Masaki ^a   Iwai, Yoshiyasu ^a   Yamanaka, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishikawa, Misao ^a   Nakajima, Hideki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Unruptured cerebral aneurysm

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031849738     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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