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Acute Superficial Peroneal Nerve Entrapment Mimicking Compartment Syndrome
- Source :
- JBJS Case Connector. 9:e0137-e0137
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019.
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Abstract
- Case A 48-year-old man presented with foot drop and peroneal nerve paresthesia after a suspected ankle sprain. The patient was taken to the operating room for nerve exploration and anterior and lateral compartment releases. Diagnosis of superficial peroneal nerve (SPN) entrapment was made intraoperatively. Conclusion Motor deficits in the setting of SPN entrapment may indicate overlapping compartment syndrome or pseudoparalysis from pain inhibition and not neural compression. This adds an increased level of complexity to an already challenging diagnosis to make. Accurate diagnosis and immediate surgical interventionwith proper surgical exposure were all critical for the recovery of this patient.
- Subjects :
- Male
Foot drop
medicine.medical_specialty
Compartment Syndromes
Diagnosis, Differential
Entrapment
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Peroneal Neuropathies
Compartment (pharmacokinetics)
business.industry
Nerve Compression Syndromes
Superficial peroneal nerve
Peroneal Nerve
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Nerve compression syndrome
Surgery
Acute Disease
medicine.symptom
Pain inhibition
Ankle sprain
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21603251
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JBJS Case Connector
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c8ed696a919d8894003428e60e8720b8