title: Surgical treatment of intracranial aneurysms in patients aged over 70: 25 years of experience.
abstract: Many references and communications regarding neurosurgical topics in elderly patients underline the interest of our Unit for this subject. We already presented in 1978 a series of 75 patients over 60 years of age operated on for intracranial aneurysms; we reported a 90% of success in all the cases operated with clinical grade 1 or 2 according to Botterel grading system on admission. In 1986, during the XXXV Congress of the Italian Neurosurgical Society, we presented other 15 cases operated for intracranial aneurysm over 70 years of age. We present an upgrading of our casistic.
authors.affiliation: Operative Unit of Neurosurgery, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mennonna
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guizzardi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ammannati
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bordi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Serino
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome