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Air emboli in the cortical branches of the posterior cerebral, middle, and anterior cerebral arteries and air in the superior sagittal sinus and cortical veins (CT)

Axial brain CT showing air emboli in the cortical branches of the posterior cerebral, middle, and anterior cerebral arteries (left and center, white arrows), and air in the superior sagittal sinus and cortical veins (right, black arrow). (Source: Santucci J, Mullaguri N, Battineni A, Guddeti RR, Newey CR. Paradoxical and retrograde air embolism from pressurized peripheral bolus. Case Rep Neurol Med 2021;2021:1063264. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license [CC BY 4.0], https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)