hematoma

Definitions

Examples

• Perez said a hematoma at birth compressed her son’s spinal cord, resulting in permanent neurological damage.

• By then he was blue in the face, a sickening color, like an old hematoma.

• If bleeding around the brain is involved, the hematoma can grow quickly.

• The result is a rapidly enlarging blood clot, called a hematoma.

• This “lucid interval” is found in nearly half of all cases of epidural hematoma (Bullock, Neurosurgery, 2006).

• From the description, Secretary Clinton has a subdural hematoma, a collection of blood under the dura mater.

• There was considerable hematoma in the right lateral portion of the neck and the right superior mediastinum, as I noted.

• There was a large hematoma in the anterior basal segment of the right lower lobe extending on into the median basal segment.

• There was a large hematoma retroperitoneally in the midline also, causing the bowels to be pushed forward rather strikingly.

• The examination showed a large hematoma in the left wall of the abdomen, and other complications.

• Hematoma, or blood tumors, may be found embedded in this membrane.