MRI findings and clinical outcome in 45 divers with spinal cord decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1112-1116

  Gempp, Emmanuel ^a,b   Blatteau, Jean Eric ^b   Stephant, Eric ^b   Pontier, Jean Michel ^b   Constantin, Pascal ^b   Pény, Christophe ^b  

^a French Navy Health Center   (France)

^b Military Teaching Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Disk herniation; Diving; MRI; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD LESION;

ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57149111031     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2376.2008     Document Type: Article

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