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To the Editor: Determining the risk of rupture of an intracranial aneurysm solely on the basis of a single radiologic measurement of an aneurysm in a first-degree relative of a patient with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage and the statistical annual rate of rupture for aneurysms of that size, as proposed by the Magnetic Resonance Angiography in Relatives of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Study Group (Oct. 28 issue),¹ is faulty. Aneurysms do not remain one size, nor do they grow at annual rates, but rather in unpredictable spurts.²

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