שאלה משלב א׳ ברפואה משפטית · מועד 2021, שאלה 85

Correct: C — the autopsy finding is an artefact. Gas bubbles in the cortical veins are routinely introduced when the skull and dura are opened, so they prove nothing; the diagnosis of arterial gas embolism rests on the large volume of gas in the basal and interlobar cerebral arteries demonstrated on the pre-autopsy CT. Option A attributes the venous bubbles themselves to alveolar rupture, option B to putrefaction, which is excluded by the short interval, and option D to decompression, which would also not selectively fill the cortical veins at autopsy.

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