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COPYRIGHT 2006 International Medical News Group
The treatment of unruptured cerebral aneurysms remains common despite the lack of scientific evidence to justify this practice.
Given the absence of research evidence showing that treatment is indicated, there is no reason to even look for these lesions.
Nonetheless, advances in imaging technology and increasing use of this technology have led to increasing diagnoses.
But why, without scientific evidence to justify "preventive" treatment, are they so often treated?
Proponents of treatment--many of whom are neurosurgeons--face every day the devastation of subarachnoid hemorrhage; the outcomes, which remain poor despite decades of medical and...
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