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Fat emboli may cause gastric and/or duodenal erosions or ulcers. The presence of fat emboli after intravenous injection of fat may be demonstrated in the lung, brain, kidney and stomach. Its rate of disappearance in experimental animals is such that after 4 days it is found in sections of lung tissue in 41%, brain 11.1%, kidney 34.4% and the stomach of 3.7% of the sections examined. On the contrary, in sections of those animals sacrificed within one to four days after the intravenous injection of fat, the incidence of demonstrable fat emboli in the same tissues was: lung 91%, brain 61%, kidney 73.9% and stomach 47.8%.
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