Rocha RMG, Garnica EMA

Language: Spanish
References: 4
Page: 195-197
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ABSTRACT

The Mount Fuji sign is a finding seen on CT scan of the skull. Is secondary to the collection of air compression level that induces bifrontal and separation of the frontal lobes. The frontal lobe collapse and the widening of the interhemispheric space causes the tips of the frontal lobes have de appearance of the silhouette of Mount Fuji.

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