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Delayed presentation of compartment syndrome following gastrocnemius tear
M D Fletcher1, D Spicer, P J Warren
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom. matt.fletcher@doctors.org.uk
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
|June 1, 2001
Abstract:
The authors describe a case of acute compartment syndrome occurring twenty days following a tear of gastrocnemius. To their knowledge, this is the only such case reported where the onset of compartment syndrome was so long since of index injury.

