Decompression sickness with a right-to-left shunt

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 512-513

  Gempp, Emmanuel ^a   Blatteau, Jean Eric ^a  

^a Ste Anne's Military Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; LETTER; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY SHUNT;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC;

EID: 73649104809     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181bd1df9     Document Type: Letter

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