Long-term outcome of unruptured giant cerebral aneurysms

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 379-384

  Nakase, Hiroyuki ^a   Shin, Yasushi ^a   Kanemoto, Yukihide ^a   Ohnishi, Hideyuki ^b   Morimoto, Tetsuya ^c   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^c OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Giant aneurysm; Operation; Outcome; Unruptured cerebral aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748051085     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.379     Document Type: Article

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