PARTIAL VASCULAR OCCLUSION CAUSING PSEUDOCOMPARTMENT SYNDROME OF THE LEG - A CASE-REPORT

Exercise-induced compartment syndrome is a common problem encountered in athletes. It may appear as a chronic exertional compartment syndrom e with classic findings of pain in the anterior or lateral compartment s of the leg, but it may also be associated with paresthesia and dyses thesia of the leg and foot.(3) Adductor canal compression syndrome and popliteal artery entrapment, which produce pain in the lower extremit y, are other causes of partial or complete occlusion of the vessel typ ically seen in active young patients.(1,2,7) We describe a case of chr onic exercise-induced ischemia in a woman with segmental arterial inti mal hyperplasia. This unusual cause of exercise-induced lower leg pain can be an enigma and requires special diagnostic studies to localize the lesion. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this conditi on seen with symptoms of exercise-induced leg pain.