Death from Cerebral Air Embolism During Thoracoscopy
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Death from cerebral air embolism during thoracoscopy.
Many cases of patients who have died from air embolism during surgical operations have been reported, and in some of these the mode of death has suggested a cerebral lesion, but in very few have the brains been carefully examined at necropsy. As a result there is at present a state of uncertainty as regards the nature and pathology of cerebral air embolism. Bohorfoush (1943) described finding "...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1949
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.4.4.237