Muscle edema: classification, mechanisms, and interpretation.
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.
Napier
Noel
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Department of Radiology, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Shortt
Conor
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Eustace
Stephen
S
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*