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Compartment syndrome complicating prolonged use of the lithotomy position
C E Neagle1, J L Schaffer, R B Heppenstall
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
Surgery
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
Two patients with three postoperative calf compartment syndromes, which followed prolonged lithotomy positioning, will be presented. Potential physiologic mechanisms are described, and a review of current cases in literature are summated.