This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

I. Introduction

Adolph L. Sahs, MD; Hiro Nishioka, MD; James C. Torner, MS; Carl J. Graf, MD; Neal F. Kassell, MD; Linda C. Goettler

Arch Neurol. 1984;41(11):1140-1141.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The treatment of any abnormal state of health depends on an accurate assessment of the natural history of the underlying disease process. The term natural history is used frequently in medical writings, but it is doubtful that the complete extent of a given disease can be covered in any single survey. With respect to nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, one cannot hope to cover the entire spectrum of this disease through reporting the results obtained in referral centers because of the screening and selection of patients who come to such centers. Thus, the original Cooperative Study of Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage necessarily dealt with a select group of patients who had survived the original insults long enough for subarachnoid hemorrhage to be diagnosed and to arrive at a tertiary care center. The natural history was further confounded by the selection of certain patients (usually the prime neurological candidates) for surgical treatment. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology (Dr Sahs) and Surgery (Drs Graf and Kassell, Mr Torner, and Ms Goettler), University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Dr Nishioka).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 30, 1984.

Reprint requests to 704 S Webster, Green Bay, WI 54301 (Dr Nishioka).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?