Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 42-year-old man with no past medical history and prescribed no medications presented to the ED with complaints ...

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 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 ...

Introduction Endoscopic treatment of intractable chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) of the lower leg in athletes is reported rarely and anecdotically. Methods We developed a minimally ...

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 ...

Fasciotomy is a surgical procedure where the fascia is cut to relieve the compartmental pressure in patients with compartment syndrome of the limbs. Fascia is a tough limiting inelastic fibrous ...

1 Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kahramanmaras, Kahramanmaras, Turkey 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey ...

Compartment syndrome occurs when excessive pressure builds up inside an enclosed muscle space in the body. The condition usually results from bleeding or swelling after an injury. The dangerously high ...