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Paradoxical Cerebral Fat Embolism in Revision Hip Surgery

The incidence of clinical fat embolism syndrome (FES) is low (<1%) whilst fat embolism (FE) of marrow fat appears to occur more often (Mellor and Soni (2001)). Paradoxical brain FE may occur in patients undergoing hip orthopedic surgery who have an undocumented patent foramen ovale (PFO). We repo...

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Autores principales: Piuzzi, Nicolás S., Zanotti, Gerardo, Comba, Fernando M., Buttaro, Martin A., Piccaluga, Francisco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4144387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25184065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140757