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Should we be screening relatives of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage for asymptomatic intracranial aneurysm?

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    Philip B. Gorelick MD, MPH

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Gorelick, P.B. Should we be screening relatives of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage for asymptomatic intracranial aneurysm?. Curr Atheroscler Rep 2, 89–91 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-000-0100-6

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Keywords

  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  • Digital Subtraction Angiography
  • Intracranial Aneurysm
  • Cerebral Aneurysm