Facial nerve palsy aboard a commercial aircraft

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1075-1076

  Grossman, Alon ^a,b   Ulanovski, David ^a   Barenboim, Erez ^a   Azaria, Bella ^a   Goldstein, Liav ^a  

^a ISRAELI AIR FORCE   (Israel)

^b Israeli Air Force Surgeon's General ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerospace medicine; Aviators; Divers; Facial nerve palsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL;

EID: 10044267617     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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