Psychosocial impact of finding small aneurysms that are left untreated in patients previously operated on for ruptured aneurysms

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 748-752

  Van Der Schaaf, Irene C ^a   Wermer, M J H ^a   Velthuis, B K ^a   Buskens, E ^a   Bossuyt, P M M ^b   Rinkel, G J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33646837090     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.079194     Document Type: Article

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