title: The prognosis of intracranial saccular aneurysms when the surgeon refused surgery.
abstract: Despite our basic policy of performing intracranial definitive surgery whenever possible in cases of intracranial saccular aneurysms, we have had 80 patients with non-radically treated aneurysms. This investigation is based on an analysis of the prognosis in 54 cases where we refused definitive surgery; it provides insight into the factors and circumstances leading to the use of treatment of secondary choice, conservative rather than definitive treatment.
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011379:Prognosis; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous