Richard Drexler, Thomas Sauvigny, Tobias F Pantel, Franz L Ricklefs, Joshua S Catapano, John E Wanebo, Michael T Lawton, Aminaa Sanchin, Nils Hecht, Peter Vajkoczy, Kunal Raygor, Daniel Tonetti, Adib Abla, Kareem El Naamani, Stavropoula I Tjoumakaris, Pascal Jabbour, Brian T Jankowitz, Mohamed M Salem, Jan-Karl Burkhardt, Arthur Wagner, Maria Wostrack, Jens Gempt, Bernhard Meyer, Michael Gaub, Justin R Mascitelli, Philippe Dodier, Gerhard Bavinzski, Karl Roessler, Nico Stroh, Matthias Gmeiner, Andreas Gruber, Eberval G Figueiredo, Antonio Carlos Samaia da Silva Coelho, Anatoliy V Bervitskiy, Egor D Anisimov, Jamil A Rzaev, Harald Krenzlin, Naureen Keric, Florian Ringel, Dougho Park, Mun-Chul Kim, Eleonora Marcati, Marco Cenzato, Manfred Westphal, Lasse Dührsen
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Benchmarks represent the best possible outcome and help to improve outcomes for surgical procedures. However, global thresholds mirroring an optimal and reachable outcome for microsurgical clipping of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA) are not available. This study aimed to define standardized outcome benchmarks in patients who underwent clipping of UIA. METHODS: A total of 2245 microsurgically treated UIA from 15 centers were analyzed...
September 21, 2023: Neurosurgery