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Case Reports
. 1993 Sep;104(3):962-3.
doi: 10.1378/chest.104.3.962.

Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale

E E Etchells  1 , D T Wong, G Davidson, P L Houston
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Fatal cerebral fat embolism associated with a patent foramen ovale

E E Etchells et al. Chest. 1993 Sep.

Abstract

A healthy 22-year-old woman developed respiratory failure and brain death within 48 h of bilateral tibial fractures. Autopsy showed fat embolism in the lung and brain, and a large patent foramen ovale that may have contributed to massive cerebral fat embolism.

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