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A type of permanent damage to muscles and nerves that results from prolonged lack blood flow to those tissues. It is characterized by shortening and stiffening of the muscles.
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- Contracture, Volkmann
- Volkmann Contracture
- Volkmann's Ischemic Contracture
- Contracture, Ischemic
- Contracture, Volkmann's Ischemic
- Contractures, Ischemic
- Contractures, Volkmann
- Ischemic Contracture, Volkmann's
- Ischemic Contractures
- Volkmann Contractures
- Volkmann Ischemic Contracture
- Volkmanns Ischemic Contracture
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2008; for VOLKMANN CONTRACTURE use COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES 1963-2007
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Ischemic Contracture. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054061. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054061
- Ischemic Contracture. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkmann%27s_contracture
- Ischemic Contracture. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1968751