Compartment syndrome after hypocalcemic tetany: a case report.

Compartment syndrome results from pathologically elevated muscle tissue pressure within a closed space. It is almost always related to either trauma or reperfusion after loss of arterial inflow from occlusion of a major blood vessel. We present an unusual case of nontraumatic and nonvascular compartment syndrome after hypocalcemia-induced sustained tetany in a 2-year-10-month-old male child after a neuroblastoma tumor resection. This particular cause of compartment syndrome has been described only once before in an adult patient.