[A case of rectus sheath hematoma].
The following is a rare case of rectus sheath hematoma. The patient was a 78-year-old man with a past history of axillo-femoral bypass operation. He contracted a cold, and when he coughed severely, acute lower abdominal pain occurred. Abdominal echography and CT scanning confirmed the presence of a hematoma in the rectus abdominis muscle. Before, patient was diagnosed as acute abdomen and surgery was performed. Recently, accurate diagnosis has been made easily by echography or CT.
Hayashi
S
S
1st Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine.
Ishihara
H
H
Hamanaka
Y
Y
Sueda
T
T
Shikata
H
H
Imamura
Y
Y
Matsuura
Y
Y
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D006406:Hematoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography