Fasciotomy

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 779-839

  Dente, Christopher J ^a   Wyrzykowski, Amy D ^a   Feliciano, David V ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSITION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; ISCHEMIA; LEECHING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY EXTREMITY COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOURNIQUET; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VISCOELASTICITY; WOUND CLOSURE;

COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FASCIA; HUMANS;

EID: 69549126210     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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