Quality of life after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in the elderly [1]

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-175

  Agazzi, Siviero ^a   De Tribolet, Nicolas ^a   Uske, Antoine ^b   Regli, Luca ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL; VASOSPASM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 4043072219     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079738     Document Type: Letter

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