RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Acute compartment syndrome following non-contact football injury
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
SP 254
OP 255
DO 10.1136/bjsm.31.3.254
VO 31
IS 3
A1 Mohanna, P-N
A1 Haddad, F S
YR 1997
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/31/3/254.abstract
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.