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Compartment Syndrome Of The Foot
Wheeless Textbook of Orthopaedics
compartment syndromes can occur in the foot as in other parts of body;
- mechanism of injury is severe local trauma, & assoc skeletal injury
may be minimal;
- classic symptoms & signs are progressive pain, numbness in toes, and
decreased motion, however, these are the same symptoms that one would
expect to find w/ concomitant foot fractures and injury;
- tense tissue bulging may be the most reliable symptom;
- compartmental pressures will be elevated;
- note that compartment syndromes of the foot are associated w/ compartment
syndromes of the deep posterior compartment;
