Lessons learned by personal failures in aneurysm surgery: What went wrong, and why?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1013-1024

  Wester, Knut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Intracranial aneurysm; Intraoperative rupture; Learning; Surgical experience; Training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NORWAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEACHING; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249213985     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0452-9     Document Type: Article

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