An unusual case of fatal gas embolism.
We describe an unusual case of fatal gas embolism, in which a man died by connecting an extension tube supplying oxygen to an indwelling catheter that was inserted into the left cephalic vein.
Bunai
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Y
Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Nagai
A
A
Nakamura
I
I
Kanno
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S
Yamada
S
S
Ohya
I
I
D000368:Aged; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male