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Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology 4/2018

01-12-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Regarding “Fatal air embolism in hospital confirmed by autopsy and postmortem computed tomography”

Authors: Vladimir Živković, Danica Cvetković, Slobodan Nikolić

Published in: Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology | Issue 4/2018

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We read with interest the article by Edler et al. entitled “Fatal air embolism in hospital confirmed by autopsy and postmortem computed tomography” [1], which describes a case of unusual fatal air embolism in an 83-year-old woman. The authors mentioned several autopsy findings indicating air embolism, one of them being air locks in cerebral vessels. In this paper Fig. 7 shows small bubbles of air, clearly visible in the cerebral vessels [1]. However, air locks in these – pial vessels, cannot be taken as an indubitable sign of an air embolism. …
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Metadata
Title
Regarding “Fatal air embolism in hospital confirmed by autopsy and postmortem computed tomography”
Authors
Vladimir Živković
Danica Cvetković
Slobodan Nikolić
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1547-769X
Electronic ISSN: 1556-2891
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-018-9976-8

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