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Post-traumatic cerebral air embolism. Case report
I Muras1, R Bonsignore, L Cesaro
1Department of Neuroradiology, University School of Medicine, Ospedale CTO, Napoli, Italia.
Journal of Neuroradiology = Journal De Neuroradiologie
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
A case of post-traumatic cerebral air embolism is presented. In the chest-X-radiography fractures of many ribs and hemo-pneumothorax were visible on the right side associated with intra-alveolar, interstitial hemorrhages and mediastinal emphysema. At the end of a CT scan of the head appeared features of arterial air embolism. The patient was diagnosed as brain dead and cardiac arrest occurred one hour after.