Does a pressure increase translate into an adjacent compartment? A cadaver study

• Authors: Richard Sellei , Christian Weber , Philipp Kobbe , John Grice , Andreas Prescher , Hans-Christoph Pape
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Keywords

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Compartment syndrome; Compartment pressure measurement; Tibial fasciotomy; Adjacent compartment

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 235-239

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2014

online

13 - 2 - 2014

Contributors

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Richard Sellei

• RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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Christian Weber

• RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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Philipp Kobbe

• RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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John Grice

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK

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Andreas Prescher

• Dept. of Pathology at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Anatomy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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Hans-Christoph Pape

• RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0262-6