Clinicoradiological characteristics of cerebral air embolism

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 459-462

  Jeon, Sang Beom ^a   Kim, Jong Sung ^a   Lee, Dae Kyoon ^a   Kang, Dong Wha ^a   Kwon, Sun Uck ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA;

AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EMBOLISM, AIR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248394207     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000101749     Document Type: Article

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