Neurological accidents caused by repetitive breath-hold dives: Two case reports

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-69

  Kohshi, Kiyotaka ^a   Katoh, Takahiko ^b   Abe, Haruhiko ^a   Okudera, Toshio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breath hold diver; Breath hold diving; Cerebral infarction; Decompression illness; Dysbaric accident; Japanese ama diver

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SEA WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BREATH HOLDING; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVING; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0034283151     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(00)00360-9     Document Type: Article

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