BACKGROUND In order to weigh the risks of surgery against the presumed advantages, it is important to have specific knowledge about complication rates. OBJECTIVE To study the surgical mortality and rate of reoperations for hematomas and infections after intracranial surgery for brain tumors in a large, contemporary, single-institution consecutive series. METHODS All adult patients from a we...

Augmentation mammaplasty with implants can be complicated by hematoma formation. The majority of hematomas occur in the immediate postoperative period. There are, however, some reports of hematomas with a delayed presentation. These hematomas in the late postoperative period are rare, and many of these cases do not have a definitive mechanism of injury or develop symptoms immediately after the ...

Originally, all acute subdural hematomas were thought to be hyperdense with respect to brain on CT (1 ). But over the last 1 0-15 years, cases of acute isodense subdural and epidural hematomas have been reported [2-6). Although contrast-enhanced CT has aided in the visualization of chronic isodense subdural hematomas [7), the use of contrast material was not efficacious in two of the acute isod...

AIM To analyze the analysis of recurrence rates of single versus double burr holes in patients with subacute and chronic subdural hematomas. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was a prospective randomized controlled trial on patients with subacute and chronic subdural hematomas. Collections with membranes or septae were excluded from the study. A written consent was taken from the patient or pati...

In 18 autopsies from patients with primary pontine hemorrhage we studied the sites of bleeding, the volumes and development of hematomas and clinicopathological correlations. A modular optical electronic planimeter was introduced to measure the size of hematomas. The series of patients can be divided into 2 groups from the viewpoint of bleeding sites, their development and clinical symptomatolo...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous spinal epidural hematomas are rare. However, in patients on anticoagulant treatment the risk may increase. Symptomatically patients may present with radiculopathy and even progressive neurological deficits. CASE DESCRIPTION We present a case of a warfarin treated patient with left L5 radiculopathy. MRI was evaluated as showing a lumbar disc prolapse or synovial cyst a...

Spinal epidural hematoma is a well known complication of spinal surgery. Clinically insignificant small epidural hematomas develop in most spinal surgeries following laminectomy. However, the incidence of clinically significant postoperative spinal epidural hematomas that result in neurological deficits is extremely rare. In this report, we present a 33-year-old female patient whose spinal surg...

BACKGROUND There are no published case reports that hematomas occur on the floor of the mouth as a result of periodontal surgery. REPORT These three case reports document post surgical hematoma formation on the floor of the mouth that pose problems with the diagnosis, prognosis, and patient management. All cases involved periodontal surgery where extensive reduction of tori and bony exostoses...

This chapter aims to summarize the pathophysiology of spontaneous intracerebral and intracerebellar hematomas (SICH) while focusing on contemporary thought on inhibition of hematoma propagation and future directions of clinical research in the field. ICH can be classified into primary and secondary forms. Primary ICH occurs in the absence of a preexisting structural abnormality while secondary ...