Abstract des Autors

Exercise-induced compartment syndrome is a common problem encountered in athletes. It may appear as a chronic exertional compartment syndrome with classic findings of pain in the anterior or lateral compartments of the leg, but it may also be associated with paresthesia and dysesthesia of the leg and foot. Adductor canal compression syndrome and popliteal artery entrapment, which produce pain in the lower extremity, are other causes of partial or complete occlusion of the vessel typically seen in active young patients. We describe a case of chronic exercise-induced ischemia in a woman with segmental arterial intimal 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 condition seen with symptoms of exercise-induced leg pain. Verf.-Referat