Cerebral Fat Embolism in a Trauma Patient with Captured Imaging of Echogenic Emboli in the Inferior Vena Cava | Zendy

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Cerebral Fat Embolism in a Trauma Patient with Captured Imaging of Echogenic Emboli in the Inferior Vena Cava

Author(s) -

Nancy Wang,

Nikhil Panda,

Jeong S. Hyun,

David Barounis,

Thomas G. Weiser

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of medical ultrasound

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.311

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2212-1552

pISSN - 0929-6441

DOI - 10.1016/j.jmu.2016.08.006

Subject(s) - medicine , echogenicity , inferior vena cava , radiology , fat embolism , embolism , intracranial embolism , cerebral embolism , ultrasound , surgery

The authors present a case of fat embolism syndrome after traumatic long-bone fracture in a patient with rapid neurologic deterioration and multiple cerebral embolic events. Diagnostic workup revealed the neuroradiologic findings classically described with cerebral fat emboli. The authors present hallmark ultrasound imaging of echogenic material actively traveling through the inferior vena cava

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