Table 4 Gas bubble score: intra-vascular bubbles amount was estimated45,46 several venous vessels and a total score was finally calculated.

From: Multidisciplinary studies on a sick-leader syndrome-associated mass stranding of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) along the Adriatic coast of Italy

 

Subcutaneous veins

Mesenteric veins

Coronaric veins

Lumbo-caudal venous plexus

Extra-vascular air

Total

SW1

3

2

2

1

2

10

SW2

4

2

3

0

1

8

SW3

3

2

3

0

1

7

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