Epidemiology of the size distribution of intracranial bifurcation aneurysms: Smaller size of distal aneurysms and increasing size of unruptured aneurysms with age

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 217-222

  Carter, Bob S ^a   Sheth, Sunil ^a   Chang, Eric ^a   Sethl, Manish ^a   Ogilvy, Christopher S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Distal aneurysms; Size; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 32244432770     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000194639.37803.F8     Document Type: Article

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