Items tagged “trauma”

Intermediary injuries or intermediary contusions affect the basal ganglia and/or thalami and are uncommon manifestations of diffuse axonal injury associated with a poor prognosis. Terminology The term is not widely used and they are known as intermediary because they occur between coup and con...

A subcapsular perirenal hematoma is a form of perirenal hematoma where blood accumulates beneath the renal capsular margin. Pathology It can arise from a number of causes trauma, important in assessing renal trauma grading post procedural, e.g. extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) 5,...

Abdominal aortic injuries are a very rare form of traumatic aortic injury and are much less common than thoracic aortic injury.  Epidemiology Aortic injury occurs in <1% of blunt trauma patients, with abdominal aortic injury representing only ~5% of all aortic injuries 1. Males are more freque...

The Mayo classification of scaphoid fractures divides scaphoid fractures into three types according to the anatomic location of the fracture line: middle (70%) distal (20%) proximal (10%) Fractures of the distal third are further divided into distal articular surface and distal tubercle frac...