include direct injury during surgery (crushing or electrocautery), compression or stretching of
the nerve, thermal damage caused by leaked bone cement, trauma during dislocation or
reduction of the hip, haematoma, traction caused by leg lengthening or inadvertent
intraneural injection from nerve blocks. We describe what we believe to be a case of sciatic
nerve ischemia due to intra-operative arterial occlusion, and we discuss the vascular …