A Case of Acute Compartment Syndrome Resolved Without Surgical Intervention

Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is often a result of a traumatic event or fractures. Nevertheless, other non-traumatic etiologies may rarely cause ACS. We present a case of a male patient who presented with unilateral below-the-knee pain without trauma or any external factor and was treated conserv...

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Autores principales: Alssaggaf, Abdulqader A, Alzahrani, Rakan A, Alquzi, Abdulrahman S, Alghamdi, Mohammed S, Alhamdan, Amal A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9365711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35967176
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26761
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author Alssaggaf, Abdulqader A
Alzahrani, Rakan A
Alquzi, Abdulrahman S
Alghamdi, Mohammed S
Alhamdan, Amal A
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description Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is often a result of a traumatic event or fractures. Nevertheless, other non-traumatic etiologies may rarely cause ACS. We present a case of a male patient who presented with unilateral below-the-knee pain without trauma or any external factor and was treated conservatively. A diagnosis of idiopathic compartment syndrome was made by MRI.
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spelling pubmed-93657112022-08-12 A Case of Acute Compartment Syndrome Resolved Without Surgical Intervention Alssaggaf, Abdulqader A Alzahrani, Rakan A Alquzi, Abdulrahman S Alghamdi, Mohammed S Alhamdan, Amal A Cureus General Surgery Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is often a result of a traumatic event or fractures. Nevertheless, other non-traumatic etiologies may rarely cause ACS. We present a case of a male patient who presented with unilateral below-the-knee pain without trauma or any external factor and was treated conservatively. A diagnosis of idiopathic compartment syndrome was made by MRI. Cureus 2022-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9365711/ /pubmed/35967176 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26761 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alssaggaf et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9365711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35967176
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26761
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