Screening patients with a family history of subarachnoid haemorrhage for intracranial aneurysms: Screening uptake, patient characteristics and outcome

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-88

  Miller, Thomas D ^a   White, Phil M ^a   Davenport, Richard J ^a   Al Shahi Salman, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055207490     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2011-300789     Document Type: Article

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