High-altitude cerebral edema with absence of headache

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-47

  Thomassen, Oyvind ^a,c   Skaiaa, Sven Chr ^b  

^a Hammerfest Hospital   (Norway)

^b Hemsedal Legekontor   (Norway)

^c NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

HACE; HAPE; Headache

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NAUSEA; NEPAL; NORWAY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 34047225237     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2007)18[45:HCEWOH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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