Barotrauma presenting as temporal lobe injury secondary to temporal bone rupture

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1218-1219

  Cortes, Maria D P ^a   Longridge, Neil S ^a   Lepawsky, Michael ^a   Nugent, Robert A ^a  

^a VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIVING; EPIDURAL SPACE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MYRINGOTOMY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OTALGIA; PERILYMPH FISTULA; SKULL INJURY; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; INJURY; MIDDLE EAR; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EAR, MIDDLE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TEMPORAL BONE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644823973     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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