Chronic expanding haematomas with interesting presentations.
The unusual presentation of our two cases posed a diagnostic dilemma between a chronic expanding haematoma and soft tissue sarcoma even after all investigations and biopsy reports were complete. Salient points to differentiate between the two are discussed along with literature review.
Lenin Babu
Vinayagam
V
Dept. of Orthopaedics, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester. leninkavitha@hotmail.com
Rana
Manish M
MM
Arumilli
Buchi R B
BR
Dean
Tahmeena
T
Brown
Charlotte
C
Paul
A
A
D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006406:Hematoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis