İstanbul Medical Journal (Dec 2016)

Isolated Cerebral Fat Embolism After Trauma

  • Esengül Liman,
  • Ufuk Emre,
  • Hüsniye Aslan,
  • Veysel Erden,
  • Yeşim Karagöz,
  • Yunus Emre Akman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5152/imj.2016.46330
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 4
pp. 144 – 146

Abstract

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Isolated cerebral fat embolism is characterized with a decline in the level of consciousness, seizures, and neurological deficits after long bone fractures. In this report, we present a case of isolated cerebral fat embolism after femur fracture.

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