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Neurological picture
Air embolism due to a patent foramen ovale visualised by harmonic contrast echocardiography
  1. S KUBO
  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Neurological Institute, Osaka, Japan
  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Takarazuka Municipal Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
    1. H NAKATA
    1. Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Neurological Institute, Osaka, Japan
    2. Department of Neurosurgery, Takarazuka Municipal Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

      https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.71.4.555

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