Contusions, or bruises, happen when the body is hit hard enough to damage the skin and underlying tissue, like muscle and blood vessels. Contusions typically don’t break the skin. Thigh contusions, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.