Subarachnoid hemorrhage and negative angiography: Clinical course and long-term follow-up

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 477-484

  Fontanella, Marco ^a   Rainero, Innocenzo ^a   Panciani, Pier Paolo ^a   Schatlo, Bawarjan ^b   Benevello, Chiara ^a   Garbossa, Diego ^a   Carlino, Christian ^a   Valfrè, Walter ^a   Griva, Federico ^a   Bradac, Gianni Boris ^a   Ducati, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiogram negative subarachnoid hemorrhage; Intracranial aneurysms; Negative angiography; Pretruncal subarachnoid hemorrhage; Subarachnoid hemorrhage of unknown cause

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 83155180631     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-011-0323-8     Document Type: Article

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