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Nontraumatic pulmonary fat embolism syndrome: radiologic and pathologic correlations
Jung-Ah Choi1, Yu-Whan Oh, Han Kyeom Kim
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology College of Medicine, Korea University, Korea University Guro Hospital, 80 Guro-dong, Guro-ku, 152-050 Seoul, Korea.
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
|April 17, 2002
Abstract:
The authors report a case of pulmonary fat embolism syndrome without identifiable cause that was seen on chest radiographs and high-resolution computed tomography as diffuse ground-glass attenuation, particularly in nondependent portions of both lungs. The radiologic findings were shown on open-lung biopsy to represent diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage caused by fat embolism.