title: Acute compartment syndrome of the thigh in a football athlete: a case report and the role of the vacuum-assisted wound closure dressing.
abstract: We present a case of compartment syndrome of the thigh due to blunt injury in a Division I American football player managed with fasciotomy and vacuum-assisted wound closure. This case report discusses the vacuum-assisted wound closure dressing as an alternative to more traditional closure techniques such as suture retention devices and split-thickness skin grafting. We feel that any surgeon involved in performing fasciotomies should be familiar with this increasingly used closure device and its potential complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305-5341, USA.
authors.forename: Arthur T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Gary S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Fanton
authors.forename: Timothy R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: McAdams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001458:Bandages; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D000071938:Fasciotomy; D005538:Football / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013848:Thigh / Q000601:surgery; D014618:Vacuum; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*