• Journal of Korean Medicine Rehabilitation
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.219-225
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• 2010

Objectives : This study was performed to report the effect of oriental medical treatments in one patient with traumatic thigh subcutaneous hematoma by traffic accident. Methods : The patient was treated by acupuncture, herbal medicine, pharmacopuncture and cupping for 3 months. Results : After treatments, VAS(visual analog scale) score changed from 10 to 0. MR Imaging showed that the size of subcutaneous hematoma has decreased from $5{\times}11{\times}5.8cm$ to $2.4{\times}3.2{\times}2.6cm$. And the palpation results also showed that the size of subcutaneous hematoma has gotten smaller. Conclusions : Our study suggests that oriental medical treatments such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, pharmacopuncture and cupping may be effective in traumatic subcutaneous hematoma. More cases of controlled treatments are needed to define the effect of oriental medical treatments for traumatic subcutaneous hematoma.

• Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.429-435
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• 2015

Objectives The purpose of this study was to report the effects of treatments to traumatic subcutaneous hematoma on the shin using herbal medication and external application without venesection, which had no change in spite of previous 3 weeks medical conservative treatment so it had a risk of sepsis.Methods The patient diagnosed as Soyangin was prescribed with Yangkyuksanhwa-tang. The subcutaneous hematoma lesion was treated by external application of Daehwangchija-san(大黃梔子散). We evaluated the size of hematoma, pain and gait disturbance.Results and Conclusions Subcutaneous hematoma and relevant symptoms disappeared within 11 days of admission. Any kind of sequela did not show up and skin color was recovered after 4 month later follow-up.

• The Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Ultrasound Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.27-30
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• 2012

There are various diseases in soft tissue tumors that occur in subcutaneous tissue, and hematoma generally would be occurred in traumatic or coagulopathic condition. We report a case of hematoma on left gluteal area that was diagnosed by ultrasonography and was resected in 70 year old woman who visited the hospital because of left gluteal mass detected by chance two month ago and slowly growing.