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Multiple cerebral gaseous emboli in an infant with fulminant necrotising enterocolitis
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  1. Anna E Morris,
  2. Shreela Pauliah,
  3. Alan M Groves,
  4. Merran A Thomson,
  5. A David Edwards
  1. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Alan M Groves, alan.groves{at}csc.mrc.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.09.2008.0928

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    An ex-preterm infant collapsed acutely with abdominal distension, bradycardia and desaturation. Urgent echocardiogram to exclude pericardial tamponade revealed multiple, highly echogenic, foci in all four, but particularly the right-sided, cardiac chambers (video 1). Cranial ultrasound revealed multiple echogenic foci throughout the cerebral arterial vasculature, following paths of the anterior cerebral and pericallosal arteries (video 2).

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