Diseases

Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome

Compartment syndrome characterized by pain in muscle groups with elevated compartment pressures due most often exercise training in athletes. Most often encountered chronic exertional compartment syndrome is in the anterior or deep posterior compartments of the lower leg in athletes in training similar to POPLITEAL ARTERY ENTRAPMENT SYNDROME.

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Compartment syndrome characterized by pain in muscle groups with elevated compartment pressures due most often exercise training in athletes. Most often encountered chronic exertional compartment syndrome is in the anterior or deep posterior compartments of the lower leg in athletes in training similar to POPLITEAL ARTERY ENTRAPMENT SYNDROME.

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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2021

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  • Compartment Syndromes (1982-2020)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000083182. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000083182
  2. Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114753984