(n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
(n.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(2) Thirty-two (56%) had moderate-severe pulmonary contusions and 44 (77%) required chest tubes for hemo-pneumothorax.
(3) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
(4) The slopes of the recruitment curves were markedly reduced subsequent to contusion injury.
(5) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
(6) These data suggest that when less advanced monitoring equipment is available, the differential Pawpeak might be used as a measure of differential lung mechanics in asymmetrical pulmonary contusion.
(7) The delayed appearance of syringomyelia after a severe single spinal trauma resulting in contusion of the spinal cord without the complication of arachnoiditis is a more recent issue, but is now well-known.
(8) Associated many severe head injuries (brain contusion etc.)
(9) The pathogenesis is discussed: a fold of contused myocardium, or immediate or late traumatic obstruction of the anterior descending artery, or both factors at the same time?
(10) They reported on 257 incidents, 8% of which were contusions and 24% resulted in fractures.
(11) Contusive damage to the choroid and retina limited final visual and anatomic results after blunt rupture of the globe.
(12) The nosology of pulmonary contusion is discussed in relation to several factors, including shock, perfusions and associated lesions.
(13) I) the absence of variations in average cerebral blood flow, measured by the method of LASSEN, following treatment of traumatic coma by means of hyperbaric oxygenation patients presenting with brainstem contusion, during 2 hours of HBO (at 2.5 times atmospheric pressure) measurements of cerebral blood flow were made using a single detecting probe, before and two hours after terminating HBO.
(14) Eight patients had contusion injuries and 12 perforating injuries.
(15) Possible pathogenic mechanisms included hemorrhage into previously undetected areas of contusion, damage to cerebral vasculature secondary to rapid perioperative parenchymal shift, and sudden increase in cerebral blood flow combined with focal disruption of autoregulation; of these, the latter mechanism seemed most likely to be responsible for the hematoma formation.
(16) Three patients with Down's syndrome had complications: one with a preoperative Brown-Sequard syndrome had transient worsening in the immediate postoperative period, one with a preoperative myelopathy developed a late recurrence of a severe myelopathy that required odontectomy, and another sustained an intraoperative spinal cord contusion followed by postoperative quadriplegia and death due to respiratory failure.
(17) Of these, two had a contusion and one had a complete transection of the pancreas.
(18) The effects of a single contusion without surface disruption and without fracture of the patella were studied in 40 rabbits.
(19) Multivariate analysis identified two factors predictive of a myocardial contusion: an abnormal ECG and an ISS greater than 10.
(20) Ninety-eight brain contusions in 17 patients served as a data base for a comparative study of MR and CT for defining brain contusions.
Hematoma
Definition:
(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(2) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(3) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(4) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(5) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(6) We report a case of a 47-year-old man with anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome associated with subdural hematoma.
(7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(8) We report the case of a small spontaneous mesencephalic hematoma which occurred in a 50 year-old normotensive male patient.
(9) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(10) Renal injuries associated with large or expanding retroperitoneal hematomas were more likely to require temporary vascular occlusion than injuries without such associated hematomas.
(11) Four percent of the 20-gauge and 2% of the 21-gauge patients had mild hematomas.
(12) We report the case of a pediatric patient with a spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma that was not associated with a coagulation abnormality.
(13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
(14) In the cases with Large hematoma, Low ICP was not observed, but High ICP was found in 4 of 7 cases operated on within 8 hours (57.1%) and the other three indicated Moderate ICP (42.9%).
(15) CT findings of 46 patients with operatively confirmed chronic subdural hematomas are reviewed.
(16) T1 values of chronic hematomas (more than 3 days old) were comparatively short and in the same range as T1 of white matter.
(17) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
(18) In such a case with a large hematoma, the presence of a tumor may be obscured on CT scan and angiography.
(19) The attenuation values of each pixels in hematoma formed V-figure in profile display, vfrying from minimum density (40-60) in the center of radiolucent zone to the maximum density (80-90) in peripheral clots.
(20) The symptom course was longer than that for spontaneous epidural hematoma.