High altitude retinal hemorrhages-an update

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 240-244

  Bosch, Martina M ^a   Barthelmes, Daniel ^a   Landau, Klara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN EDEMA; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPOBARISM; INSOMNIA; LASSITUDE; LUNG EDEMA; NAUSEA; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SWELLING; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOUNTAINEERING; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84876381804     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2012.1077     Document Type: Article

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