Cerebral venous infarction during a high altitude expedition

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Cheng, Shuli ^a   Chng, S M ^b   Singh, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c Neurology Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Cerebral venous thrombosis; High altitude

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; HEMOSIDERIN; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DRAIN; FEMALE; GAZE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOUNTAINEERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECANALIZATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXPEDITIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MANNITOL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349299192     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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