Direct measurement of intracranial pressure at high altitude and correlation of ventricular size with acute mountain sickness: Brian Cummins' results from the 1985 Kishtwar expedition

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 970-974

  Wilson, Mark H ^a,b   Milledge, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Tight fit"; Acute mountain sickness; Altitude; High altitude cerebral edema; Intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; EXPEDITIONS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; INDIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TELEMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649128454     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000327885.15132.CA     Document Type: Article

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