The distribution of limb pain in decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-80

  Sowden, L M ^a,c   Kindwall, E P ^b   Francis, T J R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARM; ARTICLE; AVIATION; COUNTERCURRENT SYSTEM; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAIN;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ARM; AVIATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; LEG; NOBLE GASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAIN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030021394     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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