AU Gardiner, W.R.

TI Massive Pulmonary Embolization of Cerebellar Cortical Tissue. An Unusual Fetal Birth Injury

QU Stanford Medical Bulletin 1956 Nov; 14(4): 226-229

PT journal article

AB A full-term infant, born to a normal, multiparous mother, died immediately after low-forceps delivery. Autopsy showed agonal intracerebellar and extracerebellar hemorrhages and numerous pulmonary emboli of cerebellar cortex. Arguments are presented in support of the thesis that a tentorial tear during birth opened the transverse sinus, so that cerebellar cortex was extruded into the sinus and carried to the lungs.

SP englisch

AD Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, USA

ZF kritische Zusammenfassung von Dr. Ingrid Schütt-Abraham