http://www.fpnotebook.com/
Soft Tissue InjuryAka: Contusion, Muscle Strain
- Precautions: Assess for Fracture (Especially in children)
- Ligaments and Tendons are stronger than growth plate
- Bone Fractures less often after growth plate fusion
- Definitions
- Contusion
- Blunt injury disrupts soft tissue and muscle fibers
- Ligament Sprain
- Injury to ligament or capsule
- Tendon Strain (Tendinopathy)
- Injury translated at musculotendinous junctions
- Contusion
- Management
Contusions (C0009938) | |
|---|---|
| Definition (MSH) | Injuries resulting in hemorrhage, usually manifested in the skin. |
| Definition (CSP) | mechanical injury (usually caused by a blow) resulting in hemorrhage beneath unbroken skin; a bruise. |
| Definition (NCI) | A bruise; an injury of a part without a break in the skin. |
| Definition (NCI) | A bruise; an injury of a part without a break in the skin. |
| Definition (NCI) | Injury of the soft tissues or bone without breaking the skin, as by a blow. (from Dictionary.com) |
| Concepts | Injury or Poisoning (T037) |
| ICD9 | 924.9 |
| MSH | D003288 |
| English | Bruise, Bruise - lesion, Bruises, Bruising, Contusion, Contusion - lesion, Contusion of unspecified site, Contusions |
| Spanish | cardenal, contusion, contusion - lesion, contusion - lesion traumatica, lesion traumatica contusa, magulladura, moreton |
| Parent Concepts | Type of injury (C0449499), Injury (C0175677), Contusion, lower limb and other unspecified sites (C0160947), Wounds and Injuries (C0043251), Nonpenetrating Wounds (C0043253), Injury wounds (C0043250), Superficial bruising (C0432742), Injury by mechanism (C0560612), Ambiguous concept (C1274012), Duplicate concept (C1274013), Traumatic abnormality by mechanism (C1302720) |
| Sources | AOD, COSTAR, CSP, CST, ICD9CM, MEDLINEPLUS, MSH, MTH, NCI, NDFRT, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
Muscle strain (C0080194) | |
|---|---|
| Concepts | Injury or Poisoning (T037) |
| MSH | D013180 |
| English | Muscle strain, Pulled muscle, Strain, Strains |
| Spanish | distension muscular |
| Parent Concepts | muscle injury (C0410256), Disorder of skeletal muscle (C1533847), Duplicate concept (C1274013) |
| Sources | COSTAR, MEDLINEPLUS, MSH, MTH, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
