title: Recognising compartment syndrome in the upper limbs of a patient with central cord syndrome: getting out of pitfalls.
abstract: This is a case where limb threatening compartment syndrome of the hand was masked by co-existing central cord syndrome following trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Tameside Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK. drthisara@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Thisara
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Weerasuriya
authors.forename: Victoria A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Lally
authors.forename: Ramesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thalava
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D020210:Central Cord Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000473:pathology*