Stroke associated with pulmonary embolism after air travel

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1983-1985

  Lapostolle, Fréd́ric ^a   Borron, S W ^a,b   Surget, V ^a   Sordelet, D ^a   Lapandry, C ^a   Adnet, F ^a  

^a AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALAISE; MALE; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENA CAVA FILTER;

EID: 0038746968     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000068025.97902.28     Document Type: Article

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