| Literature DB >> 11964645 |
Constantinos D Apostolou1, Constantinos E Skourtas, Stavros D Tsifetakis, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos.
Abstract
The authors present a 59-year-old woman who had a severe fat embolism syndrome develop after an uncemented total hip arthroplasty. The fat embolism syndrome was confirmed by clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings. The patient had a favorable outcome most likely related to early supportive therapy, her healthy background, and young age.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID： 11964645 DOI： 10.1097/00003086-200205000-00022
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Orthop Relat Res ISSN： 0009-921X Impact factor: 4.176