“…However, since surgeons have readily adopted new endovascular techniques, enthusiasm for a trial studying unruptured aneurysms has been limited. Prior national retrospective studies 1,2,4–7,9,11,12,15–18,20,21,24,27–29,32,33,37,38 have inconclusive results and methodological limitations, with most authors failing to appropriately adjust for measured or unmeasured confounders.…”