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Lower extremity compartment syndrome

Jennifer Cone, Kenji Inaba
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2017-000094 Published 14 September 2017
Jennifer Cone
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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    Side-port needle, diaphragm chamber, and prefilled syringe assembled and placed in the Stryker device.50

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    Four-compartment fasciotomy of the right leg through two incisions. The lateral incision decompresses the anterior and lateral compartments, and the medial incision decompresses the superficial and deep posterior compartments.50

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    Identification of the septum, which separates the anterior and lateral compartments. The lateral compartment is decompressed with long scissors.50

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    Left leg fasciotomy, medial incision. The superficial compartment is decompressed with a fascial incision, made about two fingerbreadths posterior to the tibia. The deep posterior compartment is decompressed through a fascial incision just behind the edge of the tibia.50

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Lower extremity compartment syndrome
Jennifer Cone, Kenji Inaba
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Oct 2017, 2 (1) e000094; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2017-000094

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Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Oct 2017, 2 (1) e000094; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2017-000094
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