Spontaneous Giant Abdominal Wall Hematoma

Surgical Treatment of a Giant Spontaneous Abdominal Wall Hematoma

Spontaneous huge hematoma in the abdominal wall after lenalidomide.

A 50-year-old woman received low dose lenalidomide for palliative treatment of advanced IgG myeloma. Despite a long and convoluted treatment history including second courses of autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, bortezomib and thalidomide, the patient responded well to 2 courses of lenalidomide therapy, but developed severe thrombocytopenia. Therefore, lenalidomide treatment...

Image diagnosis: abdominal wall hematoma.

Jasmine K Dhaliwal, MD, is a Hospital Medicine Specialist at the San Jose Medical Center in CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Gus M Garmel, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Medicine Physician at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center, Co-Program Director of the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and Clinical Professor (Affiliate) of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) at ...

Spontaneous lateral abdominal wall hematoma complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation.

Lateral abdominal wall hematoma is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition. We report a case of a spontaneous lateral abdominal wall hematoma that developed in a patient with severe cough caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. The hematoma resolved with conservative management.

Giant Subcutaneous Leiomyosarcoma of Anterior Abdominal Wall

Subcutaneous leiomyosarcomas are rare tumors accounting for 1% to 2% of all superficial soft tissue malignancies. Although they may arise anywhere in the body, they most frequently occur in the lower extremities. The incidence of subcutaneous LMS affecting the anterior abdominal wall is very rare. We herein report the case of a patient with a giant subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma arising in the ant...