2 Monash University Department of Surgery, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Background: There are few reports concerning chronic compartment syndrome producing symptoms in the ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Michiel Winkes, Department of Surgery, Máxima Medical Center, P.O. Box 7777, Veldhoven 5500MB, The Netherlands; m.winkes{at}mmc.nl Background Results of surgery for lower leg deep ...

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 ...