Is there a compartmental pressure transfer in lower limb fractures?

• Authors: R. Sellei , C. Weber , P. Kobbe , T. Dienstknecht , J. Grice , A. Prescher , H. Pape
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Keywords

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Acute compartment syndrome; Pressure measurement; Monitoring; Cadaveric tibia shaft fracture

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 240-245

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2014

online

13 - 2 - 2014

Contributors

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R. Sellei

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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C. Weber

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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P. Kobbe

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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T. Dienstknecht

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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J. Grice

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

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A. Prescher

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

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H. Pape

• Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0271-5