Missing correlation of retinal vessel diameter with high-altitude headache

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-63

  Willmann, Gabriel ^a   Fischer, M Dominik ^a,b   Schommer, Kai ^c   Bärtsch, Peter ^c   Gekeler, Florian ^a,d   Schatz, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d KATHARINENHOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HIGH ALTITUDE HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85011550212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23289503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acn3.18     Document Type: Article

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