Improvement of quality of life in patients surgically treated for asymptomatic unruptured intracranial aneurysms

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 497-500

  Yamashiro, Shigeo ^a   Nishi, Toru ^b   Koga, Kazunari ^b   Goto, Tomoaki ^b   Kaji, Masatomo ^b   Muta, Daisuke ^b   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^c   Fujioka, Shodo ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEPRESSION; DYSPHASIA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247242195     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.098871     Document Type: Article

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