Editing Compartment syndrome (section)

=== Thigh - rare ===

** Occurs with crush injury, venous outflow obstruction, or extensive trauma (explosions/high-velocity rifle)
** Likely to involve all three compartments when it occurs
** Anterior - sartorius, quad femoris, femoral nerve
*** Almost always get pain with passive motion
*** Technique:
**** Incise from GT posterolaterally to just above the lateral epicondyle
**** Expose iliotibial band and incise longitudinally along the length of the skin incision, which decompresses the anterior compartment
** Medial - gracilis, adductor, obturator nerve
*** Medial incision which stays posterior to Hunter's canal and opens the fascia over the gracilis and adductor muscles
*** Decompression is rarely necessary, but can be done through a medial incision over the adductor group
** Posterior - biceps femoris, semitendinosus, semimembranosus, sciatic nerve
*** Technique:
**** Same incision as above
**** Then reflect vastus lateral medially to expose the lateral intermuscular septum, which is incised over the length of the skin incision to release the posterior compartment
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