Preliminary results of the ARUBA study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bambakidis, Nicholas C ^a   Cockroft, Kevin ^a   Connolly, E Sander ^a   Amin Hanjani, Sepideh ^a   Morcos, Jacques ^a   Meyers, Philip M ^a   Alexander, Michael J ^a   Friedlander, Robert M ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEATH; EQUIPOISE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; UNRUPTURED INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; EARLY TERMINATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84880909730     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000067     Document Type: Letter

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