Posttraumatic Breast Hemorrhage With the Development of Fat Necrosis
A 58-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with right chest wall trauma after a motor vehicle collision. Contrast-enhanced CT demonstrated multiple fractures of the right first through eighth ribs and multiple hematomas in the right breast along with active bleeding, likely from a superficial branch of the right internal mammary artery (Figure 1).
Authors
- William Johnson
- Cherie Marie Kuzmiak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5509-2948)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- UNC Libraries
- Published
- 2025-05-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17615/17zd-2g82
- Primary Topic
- Body Contouring and Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00