| Cerebral Infarct Complicating Traumatic Pneumatocele: A Rare Sequela Following Blunt Chest Trauma. | |
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PMID: 22549758 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Systemic air embolism is known to rarely complicate blunt chest trauma. However, cerebral infarction caused by air emboli possibly originating from a traumatic pneumatocele has not been previously reported. We report a case of a 46-year-old woman who sustained blunt chest trauma with multiple rib and clavicular fractures, hemothorax and a huge, tense traumatic pneumatocele. She subsequently developed clinical and radiologic features of cerebral infarction. The cerebral infarct is likely to be secondary to cerebral air embolism originating from a traumatic pneumatocele. |
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Emeka Kesieme; Manfred Feldmann; Katrin Welcker; Albert Linder; Georgi Prisadov |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-5-1 |
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Title: The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon Volume: - ISSN: 1439-1902 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 May |
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Created Date: 2012-5-2 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7903387 Medline TA: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA. |
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Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital-Thoracic Surgery, Irrua, Nigeria. |
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