TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognosis of Surgically Treated Intracranial Arterial Aneurysm Patients
AU - Ballenger, Ottis M.
AU - Salcman, Michael
AU - Ducker, Thomas B.
AU - Perot, Phanor
PY - 1977/4/25
Y1 - 1977/4/25
N2 - From 1969 to 1973, we undertook a direct surgical therapeutic approach with 62 patients who had intracranial aneurysms. The surgical mortality for patients in the first three clinical grades was 5%. Sixty-eight percent of the entire group of patients had improved conditions at follow-up. When these results are compared to the expected outcome of the natural course of the disease under conservative management, the superiority of the direct approach is seen. With the aid of modern instrumentation, anesthesia, steroid therapy, and magnification, neurosurgical centers handling a reasonable volume of these cases should achieve comparable results.
AB - From 1969 to 1973, we undertook a direct surgical therapeutic approach with 62 patients who had intracranial aneurysms. The surgical mortality for patients in the first three clinical grades was 5%. Sixty-eight percent of the entire group of patients had improved conditions at follow-up. When these results are compared to the expected outcome of the natural course of the disease under conservative management, the superiority of the direct approach is seen. With the aid of modern instrumentation, anesthesia, steroid therapy, and magnification, neurosurgical centers handling a reasonable volume of these cases should achieve comparable results.
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U2 - 10.1001/jama.1977.03270440035017
DO - 10.1001/jama.1977.03270440035017
M3 - Article
C2 - 576690
AN - SCOPUS:84941816536
SN - 0098-7484
VL - 237
SP - 1845
EP - 1847
JO - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
IS - 17
ER -