Spontaneous Abdominal Wall Hematoma Treated with Percutaneous Transarterial Embolization: Diagnostic Findings, Procedural Outcome, and Efficacy—A Multicenter Study

Surgical Treatment of a Giant Spontaneous Abdominal Wall Hematoma

Spontaneous huge hematoma in the abdominal wall after lenalidomide.

A 50-year-old woman received low dose lenalidomide for palliative treatment of advanced IgG myeloma. Despite a long and convoluted treatment history including second courses of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, bortezomib and thalidomide, the patient responded well to 2 courses of lenalidomide therapy, but developed severe thrombocytopenia. Therefore, lenalidomide treatment...

Iatrogenic renovascular injuries treated by transarterial embolization.

BACKGROUND Renal vascular injury may be secondary to blunt or penetrating trauma, iatrogenic injuries or spontaneously with or without underlying pathology. The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of transarterial embolization (TAE) for the treatment of iatrogenic renovascular injuries (IRVIs). PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-six patients (27 males, 9 females, aged 14-79 years) wi...

Image diagnosis: abdominal wall hematoma.

Jasmine K Dhaliwal, MD, is a Hospital Medicine Specialist at the San Jose Medical Center in CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Gus M Garmel, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Medicine Physician at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center, Co-Program Director of the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and Clinical Professor (Affiliate) of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) at ...

Late diagnosis of a lateral abdominal wall hematoma presenting with nonspecific findings: report of a case.

We report a case with a late diagnosis of posttraumatic lateral abdominal wall hematoma. The patient was admitted with a giant hematoma presenting with pleural effusion, anemia and weight loss on postoperative 30th day after a blunt trauma. Computerized tomography analysis revealed a hematoma extending from axilla to the gluteus. Fine-needle aspiration revealed an exudative fluid and five liter...