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Post-traumatic adrenal apoplexy presents as minimal unilateral blood clots in ~4% of necropsies.
Small central blood clots in the adrenal gland can occur as minimal lesions following trauma.
Small adrenal clots may mark minimal post-traumatic injury; leaves open their detection and relevance in living patients.
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S. Sevitt (1955) studied this question. Post-traumatic adrenal apoplexy presented as minimal lesions consisting of small central blood clots (2-3 mm diameter) in one adrenal gland in 2 out of 50 necropsies.
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