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CASE REPORT
Recognising compartment syndrome in the upper limbs of a patient with central cord syndrome: getting out of pitfalls
  1. Thisara Weerasuriya1,
  2. Victoria A Lally2,
  3. Ramesh Thalava3
  1. 1Department of Orthopaedics, Tameside Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK
  2. 2Department of Orthopaedics, Tameside and Glossop NHS Trust, Manchester, UK
  3. 3Department of Orthopaeidcs, Tameside Hospital, Manchester, UK
  1. Correspondence to Thisara Weerasuriya, drthisara{at}yahoo.co.uk

Summary

This is a case where limb threatening compartment syndrome of the hand was masked by co-existing central cord syndrome following trauma.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-009652

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