"Gas and fat embolic syndrome" involving a mass stranding of beaked whales (Family Ziphiidae) exposed to anthropogenic sonar signals

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 446-457

  Fernandez A ^a   Edwards, J F ^b   Rodriguez F ^a   Espinosa De Los Monteros, A ^a   Herraez P ^a   Castro, P ^a   Jaber, J R ^a   Martin V ^c   Arbelo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sociedad Estudio Cetáceos en Canarias   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beaked whales; Fat emboli; Gas emboli; Marine mammals; Mass stranding; Naval exercises

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FAT EMBOLISM; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SOUND; SYNDROME; VISCERA; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, FAT; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NITROGEN; SOUND; SYNDROME; VISCERA; WHALES;

CETACEA; GERVAIS; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; MESOPLODON EUROPAEUS; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 22244468036     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.42-4-446     Document Type: Article

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