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intracranial aneurysm

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intracranial aneurysm [¦in·trə′krā·nē·əl ′an·yə‚riz·əm]
(medicine)
Dilation of a cerebral artery.


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In one study, a group of 30 subjects was selected from a database of 248 subjects who had undergone coiling for intracranial aneurysms from June 2002 to February 2009.
28-30) This belief has since been challenged by multiple studies of unruptured aneurysms, most notably, the International Study of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms (ISUIA), which published data on a large cohort in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998 (31) and in The Lancet in 2003.
Rupture of a traumatic intracranial aneurysm occurs within 3 weeks after the time of injury and carries a 50% mortality rate.
 
 
 
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