TIBIAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME COMPLICATING CLOSED FEMORAL NAILING - DIAGNOSIS DELAYED BY AN EPIDURAL ANALGESIC TECHNIQUE - CASE-REPORT

Authors
MORROW BC MAWHINNEY IN ELLIOTT JRM
Citation
Bc. Morrow et al., TIBIAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME COMPLICATING CLOSED FEMORAL NAILING - DIAGNOSIS DELAYED BY AN EPIDURAL ANALGESIC TECHNIQUE - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 37(5), 1994, pp. 867-868
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
867 - 868
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
A case is described of compartment syndrome of the lower leg after clo sed intramedullary nailing of the tibia in which the diagnosis was del ayed because an epidural analgesia technique masked the pain. The synd rome was treated by open four-compartment fasciotomy.