Jacobs D, Azagra J S, Delauwer M, Bain H, Vanderheyden J E
Department of Anesthesiology, Hôpital A. Vesale, Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium.
Acta Anaesthesiol Belg. 1992;43(2):139-43.
We present a patient who developed a right anterior leg compartment syndrome and bilateral common peroneal nerve paralysis following radical hysterectomy in the lithotomy position. We describe the physiopathology of the syndrome, its various etiologies, the treatment, and prevention of this complication.