Special features of subarachnoid hemorrhage of unknown origin: A review of a series of 179 cases

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-97

  Maslehaty, Homajoun ^a   Barth, Harald ^a   Petridis, Athanassios K ^a   Doukas, Alexandros ^a   Mehdorn, Hubertus Maximilian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Non aneurismal SAH; Outcome; Perimesencephalic SAH; Subarachnoid hemorrhage of unknown origin

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; APHASIA; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PARESIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE BLEEDING PATTERN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555205661     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132811Y.0000000025     Document Type: Review

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