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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.
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.
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When there is post-operative swelling after breast surgery or core needle biopsy, a breast ultrasound examination may be indicated in order to differentiate between a hematoma and other possible post-surgical complications such as abscess or seroma, [7] A recent hematoma is usually visible in a mammogram.
A pulmonary hematoma is a collection of blood within the tissue of the lung.It may result when a pulmonary laceration fills with blood. [1] A lung laceration filled with air is called a pneumatocele. [1]
Subdural haematoma, subdural haemorrhage: Subdural hematoma as marked by the arrow with significant midline shift: Specialty: Neurosurgery, Neurology: Causes: Head injury, alcoholism, reduction in cerebrospinal fluid pressure [1] [2] Risk factors: Senescence, long-term excessive alcohol consumption, dementia, and cerebrospinal fluid leak [3] [4]
Spinal extradural haematoma or spinal epidural hematoma (SEH) is bleeding into the epidural space in the spine. These may arise spontaneously (e.g. during childbirth), or as a rare complication of epidural anaesthesia or of surgery (such as laminectomy ).
Subungal haematoma of a toe A subungual hematoma is a collection of blood ( hematoma ) underneath a toenail or fingernail . It can be extremely painful for an injury of its size, although otherwise it is not a serious medical condition.
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