Compartment syndrome can occur from traumatic as well as nontraumatic and minimally traumatic events. Often these latter compartment syndromes are the result of technical misadventure and ...

Furthermore, in severe trauma it is possible to have concomitant acute nerve injury to a compartment and compartment syndrome, thus rendering this investigation unhelpful. Our patient represents that ...

Compartment syndrome refers to muscle ischaemia following small vessel occlusion resulting from an increase in local tissue pressure within a closed fascial compartment (fig 1). The condition may be ...