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Acute compartment syndrome: explaining the confusing facts
Publication details
Firas Arnaout MD MRCS (Ed)
Foundation Years Journal, volume 2, issue 1, p.50 (123Doc Education, London, January 2008)
Abstract
A 23-year-old man sustained an inversion injury to the left ankle during a football competition. He felt a pop in his lower leg and developed immediate pain and a limp. The anterolateral left leg became increasingly painful 8 hours after the injury. He was seen at a local emergency department, but radiographs of the ankle were negative. He was discharged with the diagnosis of an ankle sprain, but he continued to have increasing pain and swelling in the anterolateral leg, which was not relieved by analgesics. At 24 hours after his injury, he was sent by his General Practioner (GP) to the emergency department.
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Authors
Firas Arnaout MD MRCS (Ed) (Corresponding author)
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals
3 Thorpe Road
Peterborough
PE3 6DA
References
1. www.emedicine.com
2. Mark Beers, The Merck Manual for diagnosis and therapy
3. Duke University Medical Centre.Wheeless’ text book of Orthopaedics
4. Harry B Skinner.Current diagnosis and treatment in Orthopaedics, fourth edition
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