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The authors evaluated a national, multihospital database containing information on over 5200 patients to examine recent trends in ruptured aneurysm therapies and to compare peri-procedural outcomes between clipping and coiling treatments. Clipping therapy frequency decreased from 27% in 2006 to 21% in 2011. Unfavorable outcomes were more common after clipping compared with coiling, including discharge to long-term care, ischemic complications, neurologic complications, and other surgical complications.

This report explores the idea that articles containing imaging descriptions of uncommon diseases more commonly appear in clinical than in imaging journals. Using PubMed, the authors searched for articles on 5 uncommon entities and found 202 such articles, of which 89% were published in non-radiology journals and only 11% in imaging journals. Because 74% were case reports and most imaging journals do not accept these, this may explain their findings. However, radiologists need to be aware of this and should review non-imaging journals.