Embolic inner ear decompression illness: Correlation with a right-to-left shunt

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1356-1361

  Klingmann, Christoph ^a   Benton, Peter John ^b   Ringleb, Peter Arthur ^a   Knauth, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Inner ear barotrauma; Inner ear decompression illness; Patent foramen ovale; Right to left shunt

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INNER EAR DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS; INNER EAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LABYRINTH DISEASES;

EID: 0042123700     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200308000-00017     Document Type: Article

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