Compound fractures, being commonly associated with extravasationof urine, are liable to infective complications.
The popliteal artery, however, is liable to be compressed or torn across in fractures of the lower end of the femur; extravasation of blood from the ruptured artery and gangrene of the limb may result.
A localised extravasation of blood may become encapsulated, and constitute a "hæmorrhagic cyst.
The extravasation in the axilla is usually greater than that accompanying a simple dislocation, and the pain and shock are more severe.
They are attended with considerable extravasation of blood, which may be diffused throughout the cellular tissue of the orbit, or may form a defined hæmatoma.
The extravasation is usually most marked over the central area of the cortex near the middle line, and it is often bilateral.
An extravasation of blood into the arachno-pial space frequently occurs during birth.
Fracture of the anterior fossa is often accompanied by extravasation of blood into the orbit, pushing forward the eyeball and infiltrating the conjunctiva (sub-conjunctival ecchymosis).
The cause of death proved to be an extravasation of blood at the base of the brain.
The autopsy showed a thin extravasationof blood on the surface of each of the bulbi, much coagulated blood in the heart, congested lungs, and a bloody mucus covering the tracheal mucous membrane.
At the pylorus, in the centre, there is a second perforation, but extravasation of the contents is prevented by the adherent omentum and transverse colon.
The peptone, which acts more especially locally on the tissues, determines an inflammatory action, with much swelling and multiple extravasation of blood, which may proceed to a moist gangrene.
It was noticed in the Woolwich cases that those who died quickly had congestion of the cerebral vessels, and, in one instance, there was even extravasation of blood, but the man who died first of all had no congestion of the cerebral vessels.
An extravasation of air occurs, resulting in the development of emphysema, pneumothorax, etc.
The intestines and stomach were not injured, but there was considerable extravasation of blood into the abdominal cavity.
In this case there was but little extravasationof urine, as the vesical aperture was closed by omentum and bowel.
Erichsenf cites an instance of extravasation of blood into the calf of the leg of an individual of hemophilic tendencies.
This accident consists in the laceration of the corpora cavernosa, followed by extensive extravasation of blood into the erectile tissue.
Priapism may also develop spontaneously at a later period, and is then due to central irritation from extravasation into the substance of the cord, or to some reflex cause.
Peritonitis was apparently not present in any of the cases, the urinary extravasation having occurred into the cellular tissue behind the peritoneum.
Cousins mentions an individual of hemorrhagic diathesis who succumbed to extensive extravasation of blood at the base of the brain, following a slight fall during an epileptic convulsion.
An artificial vagina was created, but the patient died from extravasation of blood into the peritoneal cavity.
The rupture usually occurs on the posterior wall, involving the peritoneal coat and allowing extravasationof urine into the peritoneal cavity, a condition that is almost inevitably fatal unless an operation is performed.
Occasionally, a gland in this condition is the cause of death from rupture and extravasation of its contents into the cavity of the peritoneum.
The normal rash of measles is not to be observed on the dead body, and the only lesions of the skin to be noted are those resulting from extravasation of blood into that tissue.
Examples are furnished not only by theextravasation of blood on a large scale, but also by the escape of red blood-corpuscles in small numbers.
In children it has a light tint, but a darker one in adults, and in some cases the eye becomes suffused with an extravasationof blood.
In grave cases also extravasation of blood in minute points or transudation of its coloring matter is apt to occur in portions of the surface, when of course decolorization is not fully produced by pressure.
They consisted for the most part of hyperæmic conditions, not infrequently attended by points of extravasation and of degenerative changes.
In the course of weeks or months there remains in the place of extravasation simply pigment, either as crystals or granules.
The centre of each nest is the palest part of the mass, and unless stained by extravasation it contrasts with the reddish areola.
The pigments resulting from extravasation produce no disturbance of function.
Hæmorrhage into the stump may occur, leading to proptosis of the conjunctiva and extravasation into the eyelids and beneath the skin of the face.
It is probable that limited extravasation of blood may also occur, which need not end in disintegration of the eye, but may cause vitreous opacity and defective vision for some weeks after the operation.
If too forcible syringing be used extravasation of the fluid may take place.
In such circumstances the urine will slowly leak into the connective tissue of the broad ligament and form an extravasation extending into the loin.
A morbid swelling of the scrotum due toextravasation of urine into it.
In some, perhaps the most typical forms, there had been a fresh extravasation of red blood-cells.
Such thrombi are found also in areas where extravasation has not taken place, and conversely, hemorrhages occur where no thrombi are demonstrable, so that a mutual causal relationship cannot be proved.
In the diarrhoea of soldiers the lesions of the large intestine have been either those of congestion with varying degree of extravasation or of ulceration more or less extensive.
The same author records paralysis as occurring in one case from extravasation into the spinal meninges.
The pressure of hardened feces brings about ulceration of the mucous membrane, perforation and extravasation of the contents into the abdominal cavity, with fatal peritonitis.
Inflammation is often absent throughout, but enteritis or peritonitis may come on, or perforation and peritoneal extravasation ensue and hasten the fatal termination.
Hemorrhagic extravasation into the nervous centres is a very rare occurrence.
Footnote 124: Mikulicz has successfully treated by laparotomy a case of purulent peritonitis resulting from perforation of the intestine with extravasation of the intestinal contents.
It has been suggested that the nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pains may result from extravasation of blood into the peritoneal tissue.
The upper extremities also suffer, usually on their inner side from the armpit down, the extravasation rarely reaching, however, to the hand.
There was extravasation into and beneath the periosteum, and subsequent destruction of the continuity of the bone.
There is a marked tendency to extravasation of blood into the tissues, either causelessly or upon the infliction of slight injuries or wounds.
The trocar or aspirating tube may pass between the convolutions and no escape of gas take place, or it may be followed by fecal extravasation into the peritoneal cavity.
In some cases there has been an extravasationof blood at the base of the brain.
Defn: The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.
Defn: A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes.
Defn: A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasationof blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
Defn: More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.
Defn: A morbid swelling of the scrotum due toextravasation of urine into it.
May prove fatal from hæmorrhage, extravasation of urine, or inflammation.
May be fatal from shock, from hæmorrhage, from extravasation of contents, or from inflammation.
There was no extravasation in any part of the substance of the cerebrum or cerebellum.
As soon as injury by pressure, such as is supposed to cause the formation of corns, is brought to bear on the sensitive sole, an extravasation of blood occurs.
Traumatic affection of muscles of locomotion may be surface or subsurface--subsurface with little injury done the skin and fascia, but with subsurface extravasation of blood and masceration of tissue.
If the injury be of sufficient extent, considerable extravasation of blood will take place and the painfully swollen parts necessarily impair locomotion.
If the parts can be examined before extravasationof blood and swelling mask the condition, crepitation may be detected.
Naturally, when much extravasation of serum and blood takes place, there is occasioned a fluctuating swelling which is usually less painful to the subject upon manipulation than is a dense inflammatory change without marked extravasation.
Contusion of a nerve-trunk is attended with extravasation of blood into the connective-tissue sheaths, and is followed by degeneration of the contused nerve fibres.
It has been shown by Wright of Boston, that the coloration is due to stasis from mechanical over-distension of the veins and capillaries; actual extravasation into the tissues is exceptional.
When extravasation has already taken place, massage is the most speedy and efficacious means of dispersing the effused blood.
These swellings are another variety of extravasation cysts, and are caused by such injuries as butting, running against hard objects, and shipping bruises, which are followed by an outpouring of blood and lymph into the tissue spaces.
The heart usually shows patches of blood extravasation on the inside (left ventricle) and less markedly on the outer surface.
Cysts formed by an outpouring of blood and lymph into the tissue spaces with subsequent encapsulation of the fluid Extravasation cysts.
Extravasation cysts, caused by injuries which rupture blood vessels, followed by an increase of fibrous tissue which forms a capsule about the fluid.
A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasationof blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes.
A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.
In most cases, however, hemiplegia arises from emboli obstructing one or more blood vessels of the brain, or the rupture of some vessel the wall of which had become weakened by degeneration and the extravasation of blood.
It may also be due to an extravasation of blood or to exudation in the subdural or arachnoid spaces.
If the rupture is one of a small artery and the extravasation limited, sudden paralysis of some part of the body is the result.
Apoplexy is often confounded with cerebral congestion, but true apoplexy always consists in rupture of cerebral blood vessels, with blood extravasation and formation of blood clot.
Ecchymosis is an extravasation of blood into the areolar tissues, forming a bruised place caused principally by a blow from a heavy instrument or missile.
There is more or less discoloration of the tissues fromextravasation of the coloring matter.
Blows on the skin of a body which has been dead for not more than two hours may produce true ecchymosis with extravasation of blood, such as can be distinguished with great difficulty or not at all from those formed during life.
The chief characteristics of a wound inflicted after death are absence of a considerable amount of bleeding, non-retraction of edges, and the absence of extravasation of blood into the tissues.
There is an extravasation into the pericardium which gives it an ecchymotic appearance.
Fractures inflicted during life are, as a rule, attended with more extravasation of blood and evidences of reaction in the surrounding tissues; but fractures produced within a few hours after death may resemble these very closely.
Extravasation of blood within the conjunctiva, (bloodshot,) is also not an uncommon appearance, but is frequently the first symptom that draws our attention to the malady.
These membranes are often inflamed to such a degree as to occasion extravasation of blood, which I have observed coagulated on their surface.
The extravasation of blood between the ovum and uterus does not appear to be sufficient to annihilate immediately the nutrition of the embryo, so that the blood has had sufficient time to solidify before the ovum was expelled.
A slight phlebotomy might be very advantageous in stopping the extravasation of blood in the frontal region," replied the peasant, calling to his aid all the technical terms he had learned when he was a hospital nurse.
His breath grew shorter with each word; a wheezing sound within his chest indicated the extent of the lesion and the continued extravasation of blood.
Extravasation of urine into the sac of the superficial fascia.
A foot-note here says: A part at least of this condition was doubtless due to the extravasation of the injecting fluids by the embalmer.
The rending of the tissues by the extravasation of this blood was undoubtedly the cause of the paroxysms of pain which occurred a short time before death.
One of the results of contusions of the head is the extravasation of blood, most often between the aponeurosis of the occipito-frontalis muscle and the pericranium.
Fractures which are inflicted during life are always accompanied by much more extravasation of blood, more injury to the soft parts, and more evidences of reaction than those occurring after death.
A person suffering from such an extravasation of blood may recover from the first effects of the injury, and at a varying time afterward the symptoms may return and increase so as to result fatally.
Extravasation of blood in or on the brain is one of the commonest causes of death from injury to the head.
The spontaneous extravasation of blood in or upon the brain from excitement does not usually occur except with diseased vessels, old age, or alcoholism.
No common condition likely to cause extravasation is apparent, only one man being noted as plethoric, but in many the rope seems to have been very tight.
She did not die until twelve days later, when on autopsy there was found an enormous extravasation of blood in the left pleural cavity and pericardium.
No extravasation of blood, laceration of the vessels or membranes, or injury of the bones was detected.
It must also be remembered in this connection that very few gunshot wounds will show much change in less than ten or twelve hours save that due to the extravasation of blood.
Bleeding after death is exclusively venous, and there does not occur extravasation of blood in the cellular tissues, nor does it coagulate.
The extravasation had here taken place gradually, as is characteristic of hemorrhage from the middle meningeal artery, and perhaps the excitement due to the drinking had influenced it.
