Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma

Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma. The patient was a 55-year-old man who fell and hit his head. A head computed tomography (CT) scan sho...

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Autores principales: Hosaka, Ai, Yamaguchi, Tetsuto, Yamamoto, Fumiko, Shibagaki, Yasuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26693366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/730808
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author Hosaka, Ai
Yamaguchi, Tetsuto
Yamamoto, Fumiko
Shibagaki, Yasuro
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description Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma. The patient was a 55-year-old man who fell and hit his head. A head computed tomography (CT) scan showed the air in the superior sagittal sinus; however, no skull fractures were detected. Follow-up CT revealed a fracture line in the right temporal bone. Cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma might have occult skull fractures even if CT could not show the skull fractures.
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spelling pubmed-46745902015-12-21 Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma Hosaka, Ai Yamaguchi, Tetsuto Yamamoto, Fumiko Shibagaki, Yasuro Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Cerebral venous air embolism is sometimes caused by head trauma. One of the paths of air entry is considered a skull fracture. We report a case of cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma. The patient was a 55-year-old man who fell and hit his head. A head computed tomography (CT) scan showed the air in the superior sagittal sinus; however, no skull fractures were detected. Follow-up CT revealed a fracture line in the right temporal bone. Cerebral venous air embolism following head trauma might have occult skull fractures even if CT could not show the skull fractures. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4674590/ /pubmed/26693366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/730808 Text en Copyright © 2015 Ai Hosaka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title_full Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title_fullStr Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title_short Cerebral Venous Air Embolism due to a Hidden Skull Fracture Secondary to Head Trauma
title_sort cerebral venous air embolism due to a hidden skull fracture secondary to head trauma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26693366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/730808
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