Bilateral simultaneous chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the lateral forefoot: A case report (compartment syndrome of the forefoot)

Guillaume Villatte (1, 2) , Edouard Fadlallah (3) , Roger Erivan (1, 2) , Pierre-Louis Fournier (4) , Stéphane Descamps (1, 2) , Stephane Boisgard (1, 2)

1 ICCF - Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand
2 CHU Gabriel Montpied [Clermont-Ferrand]
3 CHU Clermont-Ferrand
4 Service d'orthopédie, Clinique Pôle Santé République

A 20-year-old patient came to the sport medicine clinic for bilateral forefoot pain during sport activities (running) progressing for the last 3 months. Thanks to a positive measurement of the compartment pressure during a running test reproducing the symptomatology and exclusion of classical differential diagnosis, a bilateral chronic compartment syndrome of the lateral forefoot was confirmed. Three months after a surgical fasciotomy, the patient fully recovered. No previous study described this specific compartment of the forefoot.

Mots clés: chronic; compartment syndrome; fasciotomy; lateral forefoot; pressure; sport

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Guillaume Villatte, Edouard Fadlallah, Roger Erivan, Pierre-Louis Fournier, Stéphane Descamps, et al.. Bilateral simultaneous chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the lateral forefoot: A case report (compartment syndrome of the forefoot). Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2019, 27 (2), pp.230949901983964. ⟨10.1177/2309499019839647⟩. ⟨hal-02413429⟩