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We report a woman with fatal head injuries in whom CT demonstrated pneumocephalus and diffuse intravascular air.
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Iwama, T., Andoh, H., Murase, S. et al. Diffuse cerebral air embolism following trauma: striking postmortem CT findings. Neuroradiology 36, 33–34 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00599191
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