Case Report Gluteal Compartment Syndrome following Vascular and Neurological Injuries

Copyright © 2014 M. A. Hafez and M. Radwan.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Gluteal compartment syndrome is a serious but rare condition that has recently been increasingly reported in literature.This report presents two cases that followed neurological and vascular injuries (first case: an injury of the superior gluteal artery; second case: neurological injury bilaterally). A high index of suspicion and attention is needed to early diagnose this condition due to the possibility of developing serious and potentially fatal complications and difficulty in management. 1