Bilateral Compartment Syndrome as a Result of Inferior Vena Cava Filter Thrombosis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 104-107

  Shokoohi, Hamid ^a   Smith, Jeffrey ^a   Holmes, Andrew ^a   Abell, Bruce ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FASCIOTOMY; GANGRENE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; TISSUE NECROSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENA CAVA FILTER;

AMPUTATION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; GANGRENE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA FILTERS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 48949119160     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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