Diving and marine medicine review Part II: Diving diseases

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 180-198

  Spira, Alan ^a,b  

^a Travel Medicine Center   (United States)

^b Northridge Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BAROTRAUMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EAR INJURY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LUNG INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA;

EID: 0032884206     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.1999.tb00857.x     Document Type: Review

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