Arterial gas embolism after decompression: Correlation with right-to- left shunting

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 401-404

  Ries, S ^a   Knauth, M ^b   Kern, R ^b   Klingmann, C ^b   Daffertshofer, M ^b   Sartor, K ^b   Hennerici, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033556079     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.2.401     Document Type: Article

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