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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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Critical Care Neurology and Neurosurgery

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Although aneurysms of the intracranial circulation were first associated with hemorrhage of the subarachnoid space in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was Quincke in 1891 who first documented this with use of lumbar puncture. The development of cerebral angiography by Egas Moniz and its use in demonstrating the presence and location aneurysms in 1933 (1,2) heralded an age when effective treatment modalities could be developed for this heretofore uniformly fatal disease.

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Bambakidis, N.C., Selman, W.R. (2004). Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Suarez, J.I. (eds) Critical Care Neurology and Neurosurgery. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-660-7_20

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