Trocar injury of the retroperitoneal vessels followed by life-threatening postischemic compartment syndrome of both lower extremities

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 222-224

  Hauser, Joerg ^a   Lehnhardt, Marcus ^a   Steinau, Hans Ulrich ^a   Homann, Heinz Herbert ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compartment syndrome; Postischemic; Trocar injury

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTENSIVE CARE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEG; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROPERITONEUM; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; THIGH; TROCAR; TROCAR INJURY; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPY; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM, ARTIFICIAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PUNCTURES; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 42449100016     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e318165920c     Document Type: Article

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