Subarachnoid haemorrhage in patients ≥75 years: Clinical course, treatment and outcome

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 900-901

  Oertel, M F ^a   Scharbrodt, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746271936     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.095182     Document Type: Note

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