Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for post-radiation central nervous system injury: A retrospective case series

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 87-96

  Valadão, Jason ^a   Pearl, Joshua ^a   Verma, Sumit ^a,b   Helms, Ann ^a,c   Whelan, Harry ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPASSIONATE USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPASSIONATE USE TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; VON HIPPEL-LINDAU DISEASE;

EID: 84899426331     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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