Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report

Leg pain is a common presentation to the outpatient department. Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome is a rare cause of bilateral calf pain. Although this condition has been well documented in young athletes, it has rarely been reported in the elderly. We present the case of a 68-year-old mal...

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Autores principales: Siau, Keith, O‘Rourke, Killian P, Khanna, Arun, Laversuch, Cathy J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830071
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8346
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author Siau, Keith
O‘Rourke, Killian P
Khanna, Arun
Laversuch, Cathy J
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Khanna, Arun
Laversuch, Cathy J
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description Leg pain is a common presentation to the outpatient department. Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome is a rare cause of bilateral calf pain. Although this condition has been well documented in young athletes, it has rarely been reported in the elderly. We present the case of a 68-year-old male bodybuilder with bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome, describe the presentation and evaluation of the condition, and provide a review of the literature herewith.
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spelling pubmed-27403112009-10-14 Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report Siau, Keith O‘Rourke, Killian P Khanna, Arun Laversuch, Cathy J Cases J Case report Leg pain is a common presentation to the outpatient department. Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome is a rare cause of bilateral calf pain. Although this condition has been well documented in young athletes, it has rarely been reported in the elderly. We present the case of a 68-year-old male bodybuilder with bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome, describe the presentation and evaluation of the condition, and provide a review of the literature herewith. Cases Network Ltd 2009-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2740311/ /pubmed/19830071 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8346 Text en © 2009 Siau et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Siau, Keith
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Khanna, Arun
Laversuch, Cathy J
Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title_full Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title_fullStr Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title_short Bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
title_sort bilateral calf chronic compartment syndrome in an elderly male: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830071
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8346
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