Comprehensive stroke center treatment and outcomes for elderly adults with cerebral aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhage

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1984-1986

  Akins, Paul T ^a   Axelrod, Yekaterina ^a   Arshad, Syed ^a   Hartman, Jonathan ^a   Ji, Cheng ^a   Ciporen, Jeremy ^a   Hawk, Mark W ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNRUPTURED INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867477950     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04173.x     Document Type: Letter

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