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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Artifacts | Artifact - Swiss Cheese Brain | 1A3 Artifact, terminal Clostridium sepsis (Case 1) 5A
Dilatation of the sulcal depths (arrows) is an unusual appearance of the postmortem growth of gas-forming bacilli. Often these patients have terminal sepsis with a gas-forming organism, escape of gut bacteria perimortem and/or a delay in refrigeration.
