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Most bruises occur close enough to the epidermis such that the bleeding causes a visible discoloration. The bruise then remains visible until the blood is either absorbed by tissues or cleared by immune system action. Bruises which do not blanch under pressure can involve capillaries at the level of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, or bone ...
Paroxysmal hand hematoma, also known as Achenbach syndrome, is a skin condition characterized by spontaneous focal hemorrhage into the palm or the volar surface of a finger, which results in transitory localized pain, followed by rapid swelling and localized blueish discoloration.
A hematoma, also spelled haematoma, or blood suffusion is a localized bleeding outside of blood vessels, due to either disease or trauma including injury or surgery [1] and may involve blood continuing to seep from broken capillaries.
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the lymphoid line of blood cells characterized by the development of large numbers of immature lymphocytes. [1] Symptoms may include feeling tired, pale skin color, fever, easy bleeding or bruising, enlarged lymph nodes, or bone pain. [1]
The most common cause of death in trauma is bleeding. [6] Death from trauma accounts for 1.5 million of the 1.9 million deaths per year due to bleeding. [4] There are two types of trauma: penetrating trauma and blunt trauma. [2] Penetrating trauma is the most common cause of vascular injury and can result in internal bleeding.
Livor mortis (from Latin līvor ' bluish color, bruise ' and mortis ' of death '), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem ' after death ' and lividitas ' black and blueness '), hypostasis (from Greek ὑπό (hypo) ' under, beneath ' and στάσις (stasis) ' a standing ') [1] [2] or suggillation, is the second stage of death and one of ...
Grey Turner's sign refers to bruising of the flanks, the part of the body between the last rib and the top of the hip.The bruising appears as a blue discoloration, [1] and is a sign of retroperitoneal hemorrhage, or bleeding behind the peritoneum, which is a lining of the abdominal cavity.