Cerebral infarction in a 24-year-old pilot

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1105-1109

  Ohashi, Koichiro ^a   Nakanishi, Kuniaki ^b   Miyajima, Daijiro ^c   Fukushima, Koji ^d   Shirotani, Toshiki ^e   Kuwamura, Keiichi ^f   Tong, Andrew ^g  

^a Aeromedical Laboratory   (Japan)

^b Aeromedical Laboratory   (Japan)

^c 3rd Technical School   (Japan)

^d Tachikawa AB   (Japan)

^e Japan Self Defense Force Ctrl Hosp   (Japan)

^f HYOGO PREFECTURAL AWAJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical waiver; Reversible ischemic neurological deficit; Smoking; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHASIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STUPOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; APHASIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONFUSION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 0141456014     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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