Coiling and aneurysm rerupture: Incomplete treatment is a causal intermediate not a confounder

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Okelly, Cian ^a   MacDonald, R Loch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM CLIP; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COIL EMBOLIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47649093457     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.519561     Document Type: Letter

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