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Is the diagnosis as simple as the treatment? Diagnostic pitfalls in chronic exertional compartment syndrome?

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Orthopedic and Traumatology Department, Gaziantep University, 27060, Gaziantep, Turkey

    Oguz Cebesoy & Kamil Kose

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Cebesoy, O., Kose, K. Is the diagnosis as simple as the treatment? Diagnostic pitfalls in chronic exertional compartment syndrome?. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthr 15, 109 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-006-0240-5

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