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Case Reports
. 2010 Sep 19:2010:bcr0920080928.
doi: 10.1136/bcr.09.2008.0928.

Multiple cerebral gaseous emboli in an infant with fulminant necrotising enterocolitis

Anna E Morris  1 , Shreela Pauliah, Alan M Groves, Merran A Thomson, A David Edwards
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Case Reports

Multiple cerebral gaseous emboli in an infant with fulminant necrotising enterocolitis

Anna E Morris et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
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Competing interests None.

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Apical four-chamber echocardiogram demonstrates highly echogenic foci in all four cardiac chambers.
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Midline sagittal cranial ultrasound view demonstrates gas emboli following paths of anterior cerebral and pericallosal arteries.
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