Acute mountain sickness: Medical problems associated with acute and subacute exposure to hypobaric hypoxia

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 973, 2006, Pages 748-753

  Clarke, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG EDEMA; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXEMIA; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; PULMONARY EDEMA; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 39049130025     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.047662     Document Type: Review

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