| Autor: |
Bin Wang, Fu Zhang, Ning Xiao, Xiang Xu, Qi Wang, Xiao-Hui Tan, Tao Wang, Hui-Jun Wang, Dong-Ri Li |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2016 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 171-174 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2349-5014 |
| DOI: |
10.4103/2349-5014.191472 |
| Popis: |
We report a case of nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome with large amounts of macrophages with phagocytized fat droplets in the alveoli. A 46-year-old male presented with a glass-cut injury in his little finger. The wound was debrided and sutured at the hospital, but he was found dead 43 h after treatment. Autopsy results showed that the patient had steatohepatitis, accompanied by histological findings of fat droplets in the pulmonary capillaries. In the alveoli, we found a large number of macrophages with phagocytized fat droplets that showed stained. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of such a case, and the paper proposes that fat droplets phagocytized by a large number of macrophages may be a characteristic feature of fat embolism, which may be relevant to forensic pathology practice. |
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