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Fracture Complications: Embolism, Compartment Syndrome and Union Failure

Orthopaedic lecture on the complications of fractures, general and local, early and late: shock, venous thromboembolism, visceral and vascular injury, nerve damage and compartment syndrome recognised by pain, pallor, paraesthesia and pulselessness, tetanus and clostridial infection, then delayed union, non-union, malunion, joint instability, reflex sympathetic dystrophy and post-traumatic arthritis.

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