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Massive cerebral air embolism after a series of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage tube placements in woman with recurrent gall bladder cancer (CT)

Initial noncontrast brain CT in a in a 50-year-old woman with recurrent gall bladder cancer shows extensive pneumocephali in the sulci of the right cerebral hemisphere with air densities in the superior frontal sulcus of the left frontal lobe. (Source: Lee JH, Lee HY, Lim MK, Kang YH. Massive cerebral air embolism following percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage: a case report. Medicine [Baltimore]. 2021;100[52]:e28389. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License [CC BY 4.0], https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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