Point-of-care Ultrasound in Lingual Hematoma

Isolated tongue hematoma following direct trauma to face is not a common finding. It can cause life-threatening airway obstruction and needs prompt diagnosis and early intervention. We report the case of a 40-year-old male who presented to our hospital with a large tongue swelling after a fall. Beds...

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Autores principales: Mathew, Roshan, Mishra, Prakash Ranjan, Amrithanand, V. T., Bhoi, Sanjeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659167
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JMU.JMU_118_19
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author Mathew, Roshan
Mishra, Prakash Ranjan
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Bhoi, Sanjeev
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description Isolated tongue hematoma following direct trauma to face is not a common finding. It can cause life-threatening airway obstruction and needs prompt diagnosis and early intervention. We report the case of a 40-year-old male who presented to our hospital with a large tongue swelling after a fall. Bedside point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the tongue revealed a hematoma. This case highlights the use of POCUS for early diagnosis of tongue hematomas.
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spelling pubmed-78697352021-03-02 Point-of-care Ultrasound in Lingual Hematoma Mathew, Roshan Mishra, Prakash Ranjan Amrithanand, V. T. Bhoi, Sanjeev J Med Ultrasound Case Report Isolated tongue hematoma following direct trauma to face is not a common finding. It can cause life-threatening airway obstruction and needs prompt diagnosis and early intervention. We report the case of a 40-year-old male who presented to our hospital with a large tongue swelling after a fall. Bedside point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the tongue revealed a hematoma. This case highlights the use of POCUS for early diagnosis of tongue hematomas. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7869735/ /pubmed/33659167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JMU.JMU_118_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Medical Ultrasound http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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