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Review
. 2000 Feb;18(1):115-39, vi.
doi: 10.1016/s0733-8627(05)70110-3.

Soft tissue complications of orthopedic emergencies

T J Hoover  1 , J A Siefert
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Review

Soft tissue complications of orthopedic emergencies

T J Hoover et al. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2000 Feb.

Abstract

The emergency physician encounters a diversity of potentially devastating and disabling soft tissue maladies. This article reviews the literature and approach to the compartment syndrome and Volkmann contracture, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and causalgia, fracture blisters, and gas gangrene.

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