Contusions are a type of hematoma — any collection of blood outside a blood vessel. When you get a contusion, capillaries or blood vessels are injured, and blood leaks into the surrounding area. If ...

The medical term for a bruise is a contusion. Vary rarely, a large bruise can cause bleeding that is difficult to stop. A small contusion on a persons arm or knee, however, is unlikely to be serious.

To correlate the pathology of subacute cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) with imaging and clinical-functional studies, and to compare with findings from previous human SCI studies and animal models of ...