MRI characteristics of cerebral air embolism from a venous source

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 945-946

  Caulfield, A Finley ^a,b   Lansberg, M G ^a   Marks, M P ^a   Albers, G W ^a   Wijman, C A C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Stanford Medicine Children s Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS CATHETER; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33645826242     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000203117.20406.eb     Document Type: Article

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