Pulmonary fat embolism: common and unusual computed tomography findings.

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a common complication of fractures, usually of the long bones and pelvis. Common computed tomography findings of pulmonary FES include areas of consolidation, ground-glass opacities, and small nodules of various sizes, whereas filling defects in pulmonary arteries are rarely described in nonfulminant syndromes. We present an unusual case of nonfulminant pulmonary FES in which computed tomography disclosed multiple macroscopic pulmonary fat emboli associated to diffuse ground-glass attenuation in both lungs.

Blunt traumatic abdominal aortic rupture: CT imaging.

Blunt abdominal aortic trauma is a rare but potentially lethal event. It is commonly associated with high-speed motor vehicle accidents. Intimal flap, thrombosis, and pseudoaneurysm of the abdominal aorta are the more common findings.

Efficacy of bortezomib therapy for extramedullary relapse of myeloma after autologous and non-myeloablative allogeneic transplantation.

We report the successful use of bortezomib to treat a patient with multiple myeloma (MM) who had extramedullary relapse (paraspinal and thoracic masses and multiple cranial nerve palsy) after autologous and non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).