This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (17)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Clinical and Pathologic Report

ARTHUR GERARD DeVOE, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1950;43(5):857-863.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

FAT EMBOLISM has been described¹ as a condition in which fat is circulating in the blood stream in globules large enough to occlude the capillaries and induce multiple anoxic foci. Although this disease is considered something of a rarity, Scuderi² in 1941 stated that there were over 600 references to fat embolism in the literature. He further stated that clinically the condition was difficult to substantiate, the difficulty being due not so much to the fault of the diagnostician as to the nature of the disease.

A recent report by Fritz and Hogan³ has indicated the rarity of ocular signs of the condition. Further investigation has revealed that, although ocular fat embolism is not so rare as has been thought, it nevertheless is distinctly unusual. Particularly is the diagnosis rarely based on pathologic study. At least 23 case reports of ocular fat embolism are readily available, 7 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Presbyterian Hospital, and the Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Footnotes
Read at the Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Virginia, June 3, 1949.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?