Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma

Sublingual hematoma is a rare and life-threatening emergency department presentation. The rich vascular supply of the tongue results in a predisposition for rapid hemorrhage secondary to lingual trauma and developing lethal upper airway obstruction. In the setting of a patient with neck trauma, asse...

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Autores principales: Huang, Derrick, Wanchu, Rohan, Walker, Joshua, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35706743
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24974
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description Sublingual hematoma is a rare and life-threatening emergency department presentation. The rich vascular supply of the tongue results in a predisposition for rapid hemorrhage secondary to lingual trauma and developing lethal upper airway obstruction. In the setting of a patient with neck trauma, assessment of risk factors, such as the use of anticoagulation, and clinical signs of vascular injury are essential for rapid diagnosis and mobilization of resources for airway protection.
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spelling pubmed-91872522022-06-14 Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma Huang, Derrick Wanchu, Rohan Walker, Joshua Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine Sublingual hematoma is a rare and life-threatening emergency department presentation. The rich vascular supply of the tongue results in a predisposition for rapid hemorrhage secondary to lingual trauma and developing lethal upper airway obstruction. In the setting of a patient with neck trauma, assessment of risk factors, such as the use of anticoagulation, and clinical signs of vascular injury are essential for rapid diagnosis and mobilization of resources for airway protection. Cureus 2022-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9187252/ /pubmed/35706743 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24974 Text en Copyright © 2022, Huang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Huang, Derrick
Wanchu, Rohan
Walker, Joshua
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Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title_full Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title_fullStr Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title_full_unstemmed Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title_short Life-Threatening Sublingual Hematoma in the Setting of Anticoagulation and Neck Trauma
title_sort life-threatening sublingual hematoma in the setting of anticoagulation and neck trauma
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35706743
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24974
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