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Case Studies

Fatal bone marrow embolism

Rasmey Thacha William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, TexasORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5501-8492
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Alexandra Cinab University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
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Lorenzo Gittoc Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New YorkCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 714-716 | Received 16 Apr 2022, Accepted 19 May 2022, Published online: 07 Jun 2022

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