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1/231. lower extremity injury: complex problems, complex answers.

    patients with traumatic injury to the lower extremities are admitted to the hospital with multiple interrelated problems requiring an interdisciplinary team approach to meet their needs. This article will explore the assessment and formulation of nursing diagnoses, implementation of care, and patient outcomes achieved. It will describe the nurse's role as the link between the patient and the physician and other members of the health care team. The cooperative actions of the different health care teams that work to achieve the desired outcomes are explained. A case study will be presented to illustrate these points.
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2/231. Post-traumatic distal nerve entrapment syndrome.

    Eleven patients with paralysis of muscle groups in the upper or lower extremity were clinically diagnosed after previous proximal direct trauma to the corresponding peripheral nerves, without complete nerve disruption. patients were seen within an average of 8 months after trauma (minimum 3 months and maximum 2 years after). Nerve lesions were caused either by gunshot, motor-vehicle accident, and other direct trauma or, in one case, after tumor excision. All patients presented with complete sensory and motor loss distal to the trauma site, but demonstrated a positive Tinel sign and pain on testing over the "classic" (distal) anatomic nerve entrapment sites only. After surgical release through decompression of the nerve compression site distal to the trauma, a recovery of sensory function was achieved after surgery in all cases. Good-to-excellent restoration of motor function (M4/M5) was achieved in 63 percent of all cases. Twenty-five percent had no or only poor improvement in motor function, despite a good sensory recovery. Those patients in whom nerve compression sites were surgically released before 6 months after trauma had an improvement in almost all neural functions, compared to those patients who underwent surgery later than 9 months post trauma. A possible explanation of traumatically caused neurogenic paralysis with subsequent distal nerve compressions is provided, using the "double crush syndrome" hypothesis.
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3/231. Chronic compartment syndrome of the lower leg: a new diagnostic method using near-infrared spectroscopy and a new technique of endoscopic fasciotomy.

    A 19-year-old female basketball player had chronic compartment syndrome. During basketball playing, she complained of bilateral lower leg pain that disappeared after several minutes of rest. The intracompartmental pressure in the anterior compartment was 41 mm Hg on the right side and 29 mm Hg on the left side immediately after playing. Prolonged ischemia of the anterior compartment was observed in comparison with four normal controls using near-infrared spectroscopy. magnetic resonance imaging also revealed that the anterior compartment was mainly affected. Endoscopic fasciotomy was performed using an arthroscope, a transparent outer tube, and a retrograde blade. After the operation, her symptoms disappeared. Three months postoperatively, the anterior compartment pressure decreased and prolonged tissue ischemia improved. Endoscopic fasciotomy allowed us to cut the fascia safely and less invasively. We concluded that this technique is useful in treating chronic compartment syndrome in the anterior compartment of the lower leg.
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4/231. Muscle hernias of the lower leg: MRI findings.

    Muscle hernias of the lower leg involving the tibialis anterior, peroneus brevis, and lateral head of the gastrocnemius were found in three different patients. MRI findings allowed recognition of herniated muscle in all cases and identification of fascial defect in two of them. MR imaging findings and the value of dynamic MR imaging is emphasized.
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5/231. Tibial artery false aneurysm: uncommon result of blunt injury occurring during athletics.

    Two young men presented with symptoms following lower extremity injuries sustained in the normal course of participation in sports. One played baseball while the other competed in Tae Kwon Do. One case presented with digital ischemia, the other developed a pulsating hematoma. Each came to angiography, and each proved to have a false aneurysm of a tibial artery. The tibial artery was ligated in each case, without further complications. The patient with digital ischemia was thought to have sustained microemboli, and also underwent lumbar sympathectomy.
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6/231. Amputated lower limbs as a bank of organs for other organ salvage.

    Aggressive modern technologies have made it possible to attempt limb salvage in even the most extreme cases. However, it is imperative to remember that prolonged salvage attempts may lead to devastating complications. The decision-making is more problematic in patients with bilateral severely injured mangled lower limbs. In such a case, protocols like the MESS are no longer valid because of the implications of bilateral amputation. In these rare cases, we use a multi-team approach and modern micro-surgical reconstructive techniques in attempting to salvage at least one of the lower limbs. We present here our experience in six patients with bilateral mangled lower limbs where an amputated limb was the source of "spare parts" for the salvage of the contralateral limb. In each of the cases, after evaluation and planning, the harvesting of the required tissues (including skin, muscle, bone, nerve and blood vessels) from the amputated leg was performed and simultaneously, a reconstruction of the contralateral severely injured limb was done. These cases emphasize the importance of modern trauma care, not only the ability to treat multiply traumatized patients, but also the capability to execute sophisticated techniques during the acute phase of treatment with maximal cooperation between teams from different disciplines.
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7/231. compartment syndromes.

    A patient is presented who developed the Compartment Syndrome, following blunt trauma to the lower limb. A "fibulectomy-fasciotomy" was performed. This allowed restoration of normal peripheral circulation of the limb but failed to prevent ischaemic necrosis developing in the anterior tibial, peroneal and posterior tibial compartments. compartment syndromes in the lower limb are discussed, with a view to their early recognition and management.
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8/231. Ossification in the rectus sheath following free rectus flap.

    Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a rare complication of laparotomy wounds. In this report, we describe an unusual presentation of ossification within the closed sheath following the harvest of a free rectus flap for lower limb reconstruction. Of specific interest to this case is that access to the rectus was gained through a lower transverse approach. Furthermore, the extremities of this incision were utilised for harvest of cancellous bone from the iliac crests. Given that one explanation for HO is intraoperative seeding it is of note that no problem was encountered in the wound intimately associated with the bony disruption.
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9/231. Free flap to the arteria peronea magna for lower limb salvage.

    A 36-year-old woman sustained an amputation of her right leg at the thigh level and a degloving injury of her left foot and ankle region in an accident during a suicide attempt. Primarily, her left foot was covered with a split skin graft, resulting in a soft-tissue defect at the medial malleolus and at the calcaneus bone. Reconstruction was planned with a free latissimus dorsi muscle flap. Preoperative examinations revealed an arteria peronea magna with a hyperplastic peroneal artery solely providing arterial blood supply to the foot. The arteria peronea magna divided into two branches proximal to the upper ankle joint, replacing the dorsal pedis artery and the medial plantar artery. Tibial posterior and tibial anterior arteries were hypoplastic-aplastic. Microvascular end-to-end anastomoses of the flap vessels to the medial branch ("medial plantar artery") of the arteria peronea magna and its concomitant vein at the medial malleolar bone level were successfully performed. The postoperative course was uneventful. Four weeks postoperatively, the patient started walking assisted by a prosthesis on her right thigh stump. This experience demonstrates that even in a case of arteria peronea magna, free flap surgery for lower limb salvage is a reliable and worthwhile method.
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10/231. Widely split latissimus dorsi muscle flaps for reconstruction of long soft-tissue defects in lower extremities.

    Although the latissimus dorsi is one of the largest and longest muscles in the human body, it is still sometimes inadequate for reconstruction of a soft-tissue defect of extensive length and dimension. Eight patients with such lower limb defects were treated with latissimus dorsi muscles split into two hemiflaps sequentially linked, one after the other like a chain. Six transfers were completely successful, one required reexploration for arterial occlusion, and two hemiflaps had a partial loss that could be managed by touching up the skin graft. The average split sequential-link muscle was 42 cm in length. Although two patients had a partial loss, we consider that the widely split single latissimus dorsi muscle can still be used reliably to reconstruct a long slender defect, or two separate, longitudinally located, medium-sized defects in the same leg.
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