Tear film bubbles and decompression illness. Finally a diagnostic test to cry for?

South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 233-238

  Bennett, Mike ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Decompression illness; Hyperbaric research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012274969     PISSN: 08131988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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