Unruptured intracranial aneurysms and life insurance underwriting
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Treatment options of unruptured intracranial aneurysms.
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), despite improvements in surgical and medical treatment, is still a serious disease with high rates of case fatality (40% to 50%) and morbidity.1–3 Incidence rates of SAH have not changed during the CT era, and outcome of SAH has only modestly improved during the past few decades. Outcome is still determined mainly by severity of initial bleeding or earl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology: Clinical Practice
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2163-0402,2163-0933
DOI: 10.1212/cpj.0000000000000333