Dementia pugilistica and cavum septi pellucidi: Born to box?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 361-365

  Bodensteiner, John B ^a,c   Schaefer, G Bradley ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOXING; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SHORT SURVEY; SPORT INJURY;

EID: 0030657894     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-199724060-00002     Document Type: Short Survey

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