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The two burning questions regarding the management of cerebral aneurysms currently concern whether to use clip or coil and what to do with incidental aneurysms. Further issues that require continuing attention and research are primary and secondary damage following subarachnoid hemorrhage (i.e., delayed cerebral ischemia) and perhaps primary prevention of cerebral aneurysm formation by pharmaceutical treatment.
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Steiger, HJ., Etminan, N., Hänggi, D. (2015). The Current State of Aneurysm Microsurgery. In: Microsurgical Brain Aneurysms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45679-8_1
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