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THERE can be little doubt that gas bubbles accompany and may well cause decompression sickness, as the effect of recompression is usually to alleviate the symptoms1 and to eliminate the new reflectors of ultrasound which appear in man and animals during decompression2–5.
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WALDER, D., EVANS, A. In vivo nuclear fission in the aetiology of decompression sickness. Nature 252, 696–697 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252696a0
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