A 42-year-old man with no past medical history and prescribed no medications presented to the ED with complaints of pain and swelling in his left lower leg during the last 48 hours. The patient ...

The deep posterior compartment is a sheath containing muscles in the lower leg that lies just behind the tibia bone. Compartment syndromes arise when a muscle becomes too big for the sheath that ...

In recent medical practice, one of the most common findings observed in the orthopedic department is of acute compartment syndrome and related disability. The compartment syndrome occurs due to a ...

The gold standard for diagnosing CECS is compartment pressure testing. [21] This involves the insertion of either a large bore needle or a wick catheter into the apparently affected muscular ...

Introduction Classifying symptoms by patient pain drawing (PPD) may be helpful in diagnosing chronic anterior compartment syndrome (CACS). We have investigated the sensitivity and interobserver ...

1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery – Section for Sports Traumatology, Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen Part of IOC Research Center Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of ...