Journal of Korean Foot and Ankle Society  2012;16(1):62-64

Superficial Peroneal Nerve Entrapment Syndrome (A Case Report).

Soo Uk CHAE 1 ; Yeung Jin KIM ; Byong San CHOI ; Ha Heon SONG

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Keywords

Superficial peroneal nerve; Entrapment; Fascial repair

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Superficial peroneal nerve entrapment is an uncommon compression neuropathy, and is frequently associated with a fascial defect and a muscle hernia. The standard treatment of that was the nerve decompression by complete or limited fasciotomy. But, we experienced a case of superficial peroneal nerve entrapment had satisfactory surgical outcome by fascial repair of peroneus muscle.