The myriad causes of compartment syndrome and the severe soft tissue findings that are associated with limb trauma make assessment of this condition difficult and the outcome from treatment variable.

Objective: To describe the histological features of the fascial-periosteal interface at the medial tibial border of patients surgically treated for chronic deep posterior compartment syndrome and to ...

These complications can be significant, and potentially limb threatening, and include infection, haemorrhage, damage to neurovascular structures and the development of an acute compartment syndrome ...

Her solicitors at Irwin Mitchell state: “If that instruction had been complied with, then the compartment syndrome would have been promptly identified and treated at surgery, and the limb would ...

An example of an incipient compartment syndrome would be a patient complaining of intolerable pain after having an extremity cast applied. If action is not taken to remove or bivalve the cast ...