Single grand mal seizures provoked by altitude?

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 94-96

  Kuepper, Thomas ^a   Classen, Joseph ^b  

^a Children s Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MALE;

EID: 0036240122     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2002.21498     Document Type: Article

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