Compartment syndrome after hypocalcemic tetany: a case report.
Compartment syndrome results from pathologically elevated muscle tissue pressure within a closed space. It is almost always related to either trauma or reperfusion after loss of arterial inflow from occlusion of a major blood vessel. We present an unusual case of nontraumatic and nonvascular compartment syndrome after hypocalcemia-induced sustained tetany in a 2-year-10-month-old male child after a neuroblastoma tumor resection. This particular cause of compartment syndrome has been described only once before in an adult patient.
Luzzi
Richard
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Trauma and Limb Reconstruction Group, Hospital Universitário Cajuru, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná Curitiba, Brazil.
Burghardt
Rolf D
RD
Herzenberg
John E
JE
Zuckerberg
Aaron L
AL
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006996:Hypocalcemia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000601:surgery; D013746:Tetany / Q000150:complications*