Hyperintense white matter lesions in 50 high-altitude pilots with neurologic decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1117-1122

  McGuire, Stephen A ^a,b   Sherman, Paul M ^c   Brown, Anthony C ^b   Robinson, Andrew Y ^c   Tate, David F ^b   Fox, Peter T ^b   Kochunov, Peter V ^a,d  

^a WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Department of Neuroradiology ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude; Hyperintense white matter lesions; Neurocognitive impairment; Neurologic decompression sickness; U 2 pilot

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; BRAIN; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84871146898     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3395.2012     Document Type: Article

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