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Acute inflammation and leukocyte recruitment
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A 29-year-old woman develops warmth and swelling around a closed soft-tissue contusion. The skin is intact, no foreign material is present, and studies show no infection. Before many blood leukocytes enter the tissue, local macrophages and mast cells release inflammatory mediators.