PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mohanna, P-N
AU  - Haddad, F S
TI  - Acute compartment syndrome following non-contact football injury
AID  - 10.1136/bjsm.31.3.254
DP  - 1997 Sep 01
TA  - British Journal of Sports Medicine
PG  - 254--255
VI  - 31
IP  - 3
4099  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/31/3/254.short
4100  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/31/3/254.full
SO  - Br J Sports Med1997 Sep 01; 31
AB  - Acute compartment syndrome in athletes, although rare, is a limb threatening condition which warrants emergency treatment. The case of a footballer with acute compartment syndrome of the left lower leg, without any preceding direct trauma to the calf, is reported. To our knowledge this is the only description of acute atraumatic compartment syndrome secondary to rupture of one of the heads of gastrocnemius.