Acute mountain sickness with reversible vasospasm

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 174-176

  Johmura, Yuji ^a,b   Takahashi, Tatsuya ^a   Kuroiwa, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Yokosuka City Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Corpus callosum; High altitude cerebral edema; MR angiography; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BED REST; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALAISE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 35648950627     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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