Coronary artery air embolism complicating a CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy

Coronary arterial air embolism is an extremely rare but readily recognizable condition on computed tomography (CT) that may complicate a lung biopsy. We present an incidence of symptomatic air embolism into the right coronary artery during a percutaneous CT-guided lung biopsy that was successfully r...

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Main Authors: Ashwin Deshmukh, Nirav Kadavani, Ritu Kakkar, Shrinivas Desai, Ganapathi M Bhat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/ijri.IJRI_347_18