The deep posterior compartment is a sheath containing muscles in the lower leg that lies just behind the tibia bone. Compartment syndromes arise when a muscle becomes too big for the sheath that ...

but it most frequently occurs in the lower leg, which has four compartments (anterior, posterior, lateral, and deep). It’s also important to note that another type of compartment syndrome ...

Anatomically, lower leg has four compartments, namely the anterior, superficial posterior, deep posterior and lateral. The adjoining muscle and nerve tissues in each compartment get affected with ...

The leg should be prepared from the iliac crest to the knee joint. For lateral and posterior compartment syndromes, the skin and subcutaneous tissues are incised beginning around the ...

After many years of intermittent lower leg pain and a summer with ... Swelling and pressure in the anterior compartments and cause symptoms in the posterior compartment (deep in the back of ...

If the pain is posterior and related to blood flow ... compartment is positive then you can assume the contralateral symptomatic leg is also positive. The question is which compartment? Is it always ...

The gold standard for diagnosing CECS is compartment pressure testing ... Treatment of the lower leg can be complicated by other pathologic processes occurring at the same time.

The fascia holds the 4 compartments together, including the anterior, lateral, superficial posterior ... vascular and nerve supply to the distal leg can be compromised. Without distal perfusion ...

mmc.nl Background Results of surgery for lower leg deep posterior chronic exertional compartment syndrome (dp-CECS) are inferior compared to other types of CECS. Factors influencing suboptimal ...