Abstract

AT embolism syndrome (FES) is a combination of respiratory, neurologic, cutaneous, and hematologic symptoms associated with physical trauma to fat tissue secondary to bone fracture or to medical or surgical softtissue injury. 1–4 The incidence in patients with bone fractures is usually reported as low (0.5–10%), 4 but can reach more than 30%. 2,5 Diagnosis is based on major or minor criteria historicallydescribedbyGurdandWilson. 6 Wereportthecaseofa 67-yr-old female polytrauma patient who developed FES secondary to unusual bone fractures.

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