Impact of the lunar cycle on the incidence of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: Myth or reality?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 352-353

  Lahner, Daniel ^a   Marhold, Franz ^a   Gruber, Andreas ^a   Schramm, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage; Lunar cycle; Moon phases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOON; NEUROSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AUSTRIA; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63449116071     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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