Internal carotid artery dissection and stroke after SCUBA diving: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 256, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1916-1919

  Bartsch, Thorsten ^a   Palaschewski, Milena ^a,b   Thilo, Barbara ^a   Koch, Andreas Edmund ^b   Stingele, Robert ^a   Volkmann, Jens ^a   Deuschl, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Schiffahrtmedizinisches Institut der Marine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIVING; HUMAN; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIVING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 73449089132     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5221-4     Document Type: Letter

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