Seminars in musculoskeletal radiology

The most recent articles from: Semin Musculoskelet Radiol December 2006

Semin Musculoskelet Radiol · Dec 2006

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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.

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