title: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in Taiwan.
abstract: In 1993, the annual report about prospective survey and registry of stroke revealed there were 439 cases of ruptured intracranial aneurysms in Taiwan area. Thirty-two of them had multiple aneurysms; therefore, totally 476 aneurysms occurred in these cases. The anatomic distribution of these aneurysms were as the following: internal carotid artery-posterior communicating artery 32%, anterior communicating artery 30%, middle cerebral artery 18%, carotid bifurcation 6%, anterior cerebral artery 4%, carotid-ophthalmic artery 2%, intracavernous carotid artery 2%, and vertebrobasilar system 6%. 364 cases received surgical or interventional treatment, which 88% was clipping procedure, 8% was interventional procedure with coil, and 4% was wrapping. The surgical mortality was 13%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology