title: Muscle edema: classification, mechanisms, and interpretation.
abstract: Muscle edema is commonly encountered in patients following extremity trauma. This article presents an overview of differential considerations in patients presenting with muscle edema, and while focusing on trauma outlines causes on the basis of mechanism, vasogenic, congestive, traumatic, and tumorigenic edema.
authors: Department of Radiology, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
authors: Noel
authors: N
authors: Napier
authors: Conor
authors: C
authors: Shortt
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Eustace
mesh_terms: D004487:Edema / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications*