Citation

Gervasi A, Noseda G, Reiner M, Stucchi CA. Schweiz. Med. Wochenschr. 1978; 108(14): 522-525.

Vernacular Title

"Fettemboliesyndrom" ohne Frakturen.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, EMH Swiss Medical Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

635509

Abstract

Report on an 18-year-old patient who developed a respiratory distress syndrome after trauma without bone fractures and with only minimal soft tissue contusion. Twelve hours after the accident fever and dyspnea appeared, accompanied later by hemoptysis, microhematuria, a fall in hemoglobin and in platelet count, petechiae on the skin and in the conjunctiva, cotton-wool lesions in the retina and micronodular shadows in the lungs. Various pathogenetic mechanisms other than bone marrow fat embolism are discussed in the light of this case.

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