• Scot Med J · Feb 2001

    Case Reports

    An unusual cause of calf pain.

    • K Aujla and J Ferguson.
    • Accident and Emergency Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen. Kash@aujlak.freeserve.co.uk
    • Scot Med J. 2001 Feb 1; 46 (1): 16-7.

    AbstractPopliteal artery entrapment syndrome is an unusual presentation of calf pain to an accident and emergency department. We report the case of a 36-year-old man presenting with left calf pain and investigations confirmed the diagnosis of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome. A&E doctors should consider this diagnosis in their differential diagnoses for calf pain in younger patients particularly when obvious trauma is absent.

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