Fatal air embolism during computed tomography-guided pulmonary marking with a hook-type marker

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1207-1209

  Sakiyama, Shoji ^a   Kondo, Kazuya ^a   Matsuoka, Hisashi ^a   Yoshida, Mitsuteru ^a   Miyoshi, Takanori ^a   Yoshida, Shusaku ^a   Monden, Yasumasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

EID: 0142244749     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00821-3     Document Type: Article

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