Characteristic features of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: Predictive risk factors for aneurysm rupture

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 479-484

  You, S H ^a   Kong, D S ^b   Kim, J S ^b   Jeon, P ^b   Kim, K H ^b   Roh, H K ^c   Kim, G M ^b   Lee, K H ^b   Hong, Seung Chyul ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SMOKING;

EID: 77952569496     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.169573     Document Type: Article

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