[The compartment syndrome after fractures of the calf].
In the submitted paper the authors summarize views regarding the definition, causes of compartment syndrome, its classification, the diagnostic and therapeutic procedure. In a group of 165 fractures of the leg treated in 1984-1987 in the Traumatological Research Institute in Brno the compartment syndrome was found in 26 patients. The author supplements the problem by case-histories of two patients with compartment syndrome. He discusses the need of early and correct diagnosis, differential diagnosis, therapy, involving in the manifest form of the syndrome decompression by fascitotomy.
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D000328:Adult; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000150:complications*
Kompartment syndrom po zlomeninách bérce.