Gender differences in cerebral aneurysm location

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn MAY, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ghods, Ali J ^a   Lopes, Demetrius ^a   Chen, Michael ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Computed fluid dynamics; Endovascular; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865843790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00078     Document Type: Article

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