"Suffocation roulette": A case of recurrent syncope in an adolescent boy

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-226

  Shlamovitz, Gil Z ^a,b   Assia, Ayala ^a,b   Ben Sira, Liat ^a,b   Rachmel, Avinoam ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GAME; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0037311475     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2003.49     Document Type: Article

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