A woman was left with a swollen vulva after she landed on the handlebars of her jet ski in a freak accident.
In a case report, published in the British Medical Journal Case Reports, the 25-year-old arrived at Professional Brooklyn Gynecological Services in New York three days after the incident.
She told the doctor that she had been tossed into the air off her jet ski and landed directly on her handlebars.
The accident had left her with a hematoma, a collection of clotted blood vessels, on her vulva that measured about 12 centimeters.
Her gynecologist told her that the hematoma needed to be drained but the woman was worried about scarring, so the procedure was done intravaginally instead of externally.
A 25-year-old woman from New York was left with a vulvar hematoma, a collection of clotted blood vessels in the vulva, after she landed on the handlebars of her jet ski during an accident (file image)
A vulvar hematoma is a collection of clotted blood vessels that pools in the vulva, which is the external part of the vagina.
It occurs when blood vessels rupture, usually from an injury, and blood collects in the nearby tissues.
Patients usually experience pain, swelling, discoloration of the skin and difficulty urinating.
Vulvar hematomas not related to childbirth are very rare. They have an incidence rate of about 3.7 percent and make up less than one percent of all gynecologic admissions to a hospital.
'Usually if someone doesn't have an expanding hematoma, if it's not actively bleeding, there's no need for immediate [surgical evacuation],' co-author Dr
