Brain Damage in Commercial Breath-Hold Divers

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Physical and medical characteristics and brain MRI lesions in 12 Ama divers.

<p>*: parenthesis: numbers of lesion.</p

Magnetic resonance images of brains of three Ama divers: hyperintense area on T2-weighted image (circle), corresponding to hypointensity on T1-weighted image (inset).

<p>A patchy shadow in the left parietal cortex (A, No. 2), a linear subcortical lesion in the right frontal lobe (B, No. 5), and deformity of bilateral caudate heads and subdural fluid collection (allow heads) (C, No. 11).</p