| Scrotal Hemorrhage
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Etiology
•Not applicable.
•Hemorrhage is not a disease per se, but a frequent common manifestation of many disease processes.
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Pathogenesis
•Hemorrhage in and of itself is not specific and simply results from extravasation of blood from damaged blood vessels whatever the cause.
•In the photograph showing scrotal hemorrhage in a stillborn, the hemorrhage was part of a generalized multisystem hemorrhagic process presumably related to ischemia.,
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Epidemiology
•Not applicable.
•Hemorrhage is not a disease per se, but a frequent common manifestation of many disease processes.
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General Gross Description
•Hemorrhage is a frequent feature of many disease processes and is grossly recognized by dark red to black discoloration of tissues.
•Examples:
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General Microscopic Description
•Histologically, hemorrhage is recognized by the presence of red blood cells in extravascular spaces.
•Examples:
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Clinical Correlation
•Not applicable.
•Hemorrhage is not a disease per se, but a frequent common manifestation of many disease processes.
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References
• Cotran RS, Kumar V, Robbins SL: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994, pp. 98-99.
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| Scrotal Hemorrhage
| | Synopsis by: Harold Yamase M.D. (T79400M37000)[479]
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