Open Journal of Orthopedics

Vol.4 No.10(2014), Paper ID 50901, 12 pages

DOI:10.4236/ojo.2014.410044

 

Fat Embolism Syndrome in a Patient with Bilateral Tibial Fractures: Report of the Case and Review of the Literature

 

Ilias Alexandros Kosmidis, Konstantinos Kourkoutas, Ioannis Bampalis, Panagiotis Giannakopoulos

 

Second Orthopaedic Department, KAT General and Trauma Hospital, Athens, Greece
Second Orthopaedic Department, KAT General and Trauma Hospital, Athens, Greece
Second Orthopaedic Department, KAT General and Trauma Hospital, Athens, Greece
Upper Extremity Surgery, Pittsburg University, USA and Athens Medical Center, Maroussi, Greece

 

Copyright © 2014 Ilias Alexandros Kosmidis, Konstantinos Kourkoutas, Ioannis Bampalis, Panagiotis Giannakopoulos et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Kosmidis, I. , Kourkoutas, K. , Bampalis, I. and Giannakopoulos, P. (2014) Fat Embolism Syndrome in a Patient with Bilateral Tibial Fractures: Report of the Case and Review of the Literature. Open Journal of Orthopedics, 4, 273-284. doi: 10.4236/ojo.2014.410044.

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