Papilledema unresponsive to therapy in pickwickian syndrome: Another presentation of pseudotumor cerebri? (13)

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 80-81

  Varelas, Panayiotis N ^a   Spanaki, Marianna V ^a   Rathi, Sanjay ^a   Cohen, Ira S ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

AGED; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; LETTER; OBESITY; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MANNITOL; OBESITY HYPOVENTILATION SYNDROME; PAPILLEDEMA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SPINAL PUNCTURE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034725727     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00436-8     Document Type: Letter

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