Hyperbaric chamber-related decompression illness in a patient with asymptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 594-597

  Tetzlaff, Kay ^a   Reuter, Michael ^b   Kampen, Jörg ^c,d   Lorr, Christian ^a  

^a Schiffahrtmedizinisches Institut der Marine   (Germany)

^b Dept of Medicine I ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Kiel and Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arterial gas embolism; Decompression illness; Pulmonary barotrauma; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FITNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; CAUSALITY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SPIROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032984742     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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