A 14-year-old girl is rushed to the emergency room after receiving a gunshot wound to the head and is pronounced dead on arrival. If this child died due to an immediate “blast effect” of the...

A 14-year-old girl is rushed to the emergency room after receiving a gunshot wound to the head and is pronounced dead on arrival. If this child died due to an immediate “blast effect” of the penetrating wound, the autopsy would likely show herniation of the tonsils of the cerebellum into which anatomic space?

(A) Aqueduct of Sylvius

(B) Central spinal canal

(C) Foramen magnum

(D) Foramen of Magendie

(E) Posterior fossa