Open AccessRisk Profile of Intracranial Aneurysms
Author(s) -
Koji Sato,
Yuhei Yoshimoto
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.111.625871
Subject(s) - medicine , subarachnoid hemorrhage , asymptomatic , natural history , aneurysm , bleed , epidemiology , population , radiology , surgery , mortality rate , incidence (geometry) , environmental health , physics , optics
Management of asymptomatic unruptured intracranial aneurysms remains controversial, and recent prospective follow-up studies showed that the rupture rate of small aneurysms is very low. These results are inconsistent with the finding that the majority of ruptured aneurysms in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage are small.
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