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Calcaneal fracture with compartment syndrome of the foot
D Starosta1, A D Sacchetti, P Sharkey
1Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
We report the unusual case of a compartment syndrome of the foot that developed after a calcaneal fracture in a 68-year-old man. The diagnosis was suspected clinically because of pain in excess of his injury and was confirmed with direct tissue pressure measurements. Surgical decompression of all the compartments was required with evacuation of a plantar hematoma.