background & aim: chronic subdural hematoma (csdh) is a common neurosurgical pathology. the objective of this study was to describe the epidemiology of this pathology and the results in treating it combined from three hospital centers in benin. methods & materials/patients: from september 2010 to september 2013 a multi-center, retrospective and descriptive study was conducted in three hospital ...

Ancient hematoma is one of several lesions that require differentiation from soft tissue neoplasm. This hematoma, named as such by Mentzel et al. [1], is a benign soft tissue tumor surrounded by a fibrous pseudocapsule with inflammatory cells present inside the capsule that gradually expands in size. Chronic expanding hematoma, designated by Reid et al. [2], is a hematoma that increases slowly ...

Chronic expanding hematoma is characterized by continuous growth of a blood collection. We analyzed the clinical features of 7 patients with chronic expanding hematomas in the extremities, with an average age of 65.6 years. All lesions occurred in the lower extremities, with 4 seen in the thigh and 3 in the knee region. Six patients had subcutaneous hematomas, while 1 was deep-seated in the thi...