Upper Limb Compartment Syndrome Secondary to Extravasation Contrast Medium: A Case Report

The problem of extravasations has become crucial in radiology and has important medico-legal implications. Treatment of contrast product extravasations should be immediate. Ionic products with high osmolar contrast should also be definitively abolished from medical practice given the risk associated with their major hyperosmolality. The severity of the lesions is therefore a function of two essential factors: the osmolarity of the contrast product and therefore in particular its concentration and the extravasated volume