Routine monitoring of compartment pressure in patients with tibial fractures: Beware of overtreatment!

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 415-421

  Janzing, H M J ^a   Broos, P L O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TIBIAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL FRACTURES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 0034983637     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(01)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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