Spontaneous Abdominal Wall Hematoma

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...

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 ...

Spontaneous lateral abdominal wall hematoma complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation.

Lateral abdominal wall hematoma is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition. We report a case of a spontaneous lateral abdominal wall hematoma that developed in a patient with severe cough caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. The hematoma resolved with conservative management.

spontaneous endometriosis of the abdominal wall

abdominal wall endometriosis, the commonest type of extra-pelvic endometriosis, may rarely develop spontaneously in the absence of prior surgical scar. we aim to report 3 cases with this unique characteristic, two of them with a diagnosis of unusual development of umbilical endometriosis and one with inguinal endometriosis, from the perspective of a general surgeon. because of the potential pit...