TY - JOUR T1 - Fluids under the skin, can you feel them? JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 900 LP - 940 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2020-210403 VL - 38 IS - 12 AU - Tsae-Ni Lee AU - Cho-Han Chiang AU - Sung-Chuan Chao Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/900.abstract N2 - A 30-year-old woman with no underlying disease presented with severe tenderness and swelling at the right thigh. She described a sensation of having a ‘water balloon’ under the skin. One week ago, she fell down from a motorcycle and noted clean laceration wounds with ecchymoses and swelling at the right thigh. On physical examination, there was a well-defined and fluctuant lesion around the right thigh. The skin was intact without local heat. The hip and knee joints exhibited full range of motion. Plain radiograph of the right thigh and hip did not show any bony injury. A soft tissue echo was ordered (figure 1).Figure 1 Sonography of the … ER -