Acute mountain sickness at 3500 and 4250 m. a study of symptom Incidence and severity;Mal agudo de montaña a 3.500 y 4.250 m: Un estudio de la incidencia y sevėridad de la sintomatoloǵa

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 166-172

  Vargas D, Manuel ^a   Osorio F, Jorge ^a   Jiménez E, Daniel ^a   Moraga C, Fernando ^a   Sepúlveda D, Margarita ^a   Del Solar H, José ^a   Hudson M, Cristián ^a   Cortés M, Guillermo ^a   León L, Angélica ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Altitude sickness; Anoxia; Mountaneering

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; SOLDIER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHILE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035257866     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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