Teaching NeuroImages: cerebral air embolism secondary to atrial-esophageal fistula

Neurology. 2009 Mar 24;72(12):e54-5. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000345003.44413.5b.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Edema / etiology
  • Brain Edema / pathology
  • Brain Infarction / etiology
  • Brain Infarction / pathology
  • Carcinoma / complications
  • Causality
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage / pathology
  • Embolism, Air / diagnostic imaging
  • Embolism, Air / etiology*
  • Embolism, Air / pathology
  • Esophageal Fistula / complications*
  • Esophageal Fistula / pathology
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / complications
  • Esophagoplasty
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Atria* / pathology
  • Heart Diseases / complications*
  • Heart Diseases / pathology
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Embolism / diagnostic imaging
  • Intracranial Embolism / etiology*
  • Intracranial Embolism / pathology*
  • Macrophages / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Sepsis / etiology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed