A severe type of rectus sheath hematoma requiring surgery: report of a case.
This report illustrates the case of a 79-year-old woman in whom a severe type of rectus sheath hematoma was found during conservative therapy for myocardial infarction. Although establishing a correct diagnosis and initiating conservative therapy is usually considered the most appropriate management of this clinical entity, the rectus sheath hematoma in this patient required surgical treatment.
Nozue
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Department of Surgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan. nozue-mmd.tsukuba.ac.jp
Maruyama
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T
Enomoto
T
T
Tomizawa
T
T
D000009:Abdominal Muscles; D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*