[Fat embolism syndrome without fractures].
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.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D004620:Embolism, Fat / Q000209:etiology*; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011693:Purpura / Q000209:etiology; D013577:Syndrome
"Fettemboliesyndrom" ohne Frakturen.