Fatal systemic arterial air embolism following lung needle aspiration.
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 165 (2) , 351-353
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.165.2.3659355
Abstract
Fatal systemic arterial air embolism occurred as a complication of percutaneous fine-needle aspiration of the lung, immediately following cytologic sampling of a vasculitic lesion of Wegener granulomatosis. This complication is extremely rare, and it may have been caused by the biopsy of abnormal veins, in which transmural inflammation prevented the normal vasoconstrictive responses to injury.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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