Antiaggregation before, during, and after coiling of unruptured aneurysms: Growing evidence between scylla and charybdis

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ries, T ^a   Grzyska, U ^a   Fiehler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; PLACEBO;

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY PERFORATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMORBIDITY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43649099774     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0953     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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