KROK 1 2008 – Question 139 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
2 hours after a skeletal extension was performed to a 27 year old patient with multiple traumas (closed injury of chest, closed fracture of right thigh) his condition abruptly became worse and the patient died from acute cardiopulmonary decompensation. Histological examination of pulmonary and cerebral vessels stained with Sudan III revealed orange drops occluding the vessel lumen. What complication of polytrauma was developed?
- A. Gaseous embolism
- B. Air embolism
- C. Microbial embolism
- D. Thromboembolism
- E. Fat embolism
Hint
Think about what material from a fractured long bone can enter the venous blood, and which histological stain colours such material orange.
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