Cerebral aneurysms: To clip or to coil? That is no longer the question

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 412-413

  Connolly, E Sander ^a   Meyers, Philip M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOVASCULAR COILING; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL CLIPPING; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; NOTE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 70350445697     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.106     Document Type: Short Survey

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