Table 3.

Diagnosis of acute lumbar paraspinal compartment syndrome

Author	Back pain	Localised sensory loss paraspinal region	Absent bowel sounds	Motor symptoms	Intramuscular pressure (mm Hg)	CPK (IU/L)	Treatment
Carr et al. [2]	+	+	+	-	-	5,465	Conservative
DiFazio et al. [5]	+	+	+	-		60,000	Conservative
Sava et al. [9]	+	+	+	-	-	10,581	Conservative
Osamura et al. [7]	+	+	+	-	-	7,975	Fasciotomy
Kitajima et al. [4]	+	+	+	-	14-16	21,440	Fasciotomy
Ferreira et al. [6]	+	+	+	-	-	25,000	Conservative
Khan et al. [3]	+	+	+	Atrophy of paraspinal muscle	44 (R)	59,863	Fasciotomy
					26 (L)
Haig et al. [8]	+	+	+	-	-	-	Conservative
Wik et al. [10]	+	+	+	-	150(R)	82,000	Conservative
					20 (L)

R right paraspinal muscular compartment, L left paraspinal muscle compartment, CPK creatinine phosphokinase