The laboratory diagnostics of fat embolism

: The examination was applied to 598 patients with polytrauma and patients after surgery on bones and joints on the subject of various diseases of locomotor apparatus. All patients were tested on fat embolism in blood serum and cerebrospinal fluid. The modificated Guard's technique was applied. The test data permitted to develop the method of express diagnostics of oil embolism. It is established that fat liquorglobulia is a pathognomonic symptom of cerebral form of fat embolism.