Compartment syndrome following surgery in the lithotomy position [20]

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-

  Brinker, Andrea ^a   Doehn, C ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CYSTECTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LETTER; LITHOTOMY; OBESITY; PARESTHESIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845316762     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04928.x     Document Type: Letter

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