title: Pulmonary imaging in fat embolism syndrome.
abstract: Ventilation/perfusion lung scanning can be used to effectively detect fat embolism following skeletal trauma. Typical ventilation/perfusion findings may be present when the chest radiograph is normal, and clinical findings are equivocal.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004620:Embolism, Fat / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013577:Syndrome; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio