Morel-Lavallée lesion in a ‘non-traumatic’ thigh: a diagnostic challenge!

Abstract

Background: Morel-Lavallée Lesion (MLL) or Morel-Lavallée Seroma (MLS) is a posttraumatic seroma that occurs following a closed degloving injury. It is very important for trauma surgeons to be aware of this relatively rarely reported entity as early diagnosis increases the likelihood of successful management.
 Case report: We present a patient, wherein the patient had no history of trivial trauma and presented with a gradually growing swelling of left thigh, that was clinically and radiologically diagnosed as a soft tissue neoplasm, successfully managed by surgical excision and were reported to be a MLS. The clinical diagnostic dilemma was solved by the histopathologist!
 Conclusion: A differential diagnosis of MLL should be kept in mind in patients presenting with soft tissue swellings.
 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.18(1) 2019 p.145-148

Application of Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) in Medium and Short Period Traumatic Orthopedic Surgeries

“…Most traumatic orthopedic surgeries are medium and short operations (1-2 hours) and thus typically involve brachial plexus block anesthesia with operations in the upper arms, shoulder joints and clavicles, or spinal anesthesia with operations in the lower extremities [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] . However, those techniques could not guarantee the absolute success rate even with the most experienced anesthetists and could be associated with a number of complications [10][11][12] .…”