Ruptured intracranial aneurysms: The outcome of surgical treatment in experienced hands in the period prior to the advent of endovascular coiling

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1680-1684

  Lafuente, J ^a,b   Maurice Williams, R S ^b  

^a FRCS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348012910     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.12.1680     Document Type: Article

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