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Bilateral superficial peroneal nerve entrapment secondary to anorexia nervosa: a case report

Teoman Toni Sevinç email, Aydıner Kalacı email, Yunus Doğramacı email and Ahmet Nedim Yanat email

Dept. of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Medicine, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey

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Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:12doi:10.1186/1749-7221-3-12

Published: 27 April 2008

Abstract

We report a case of severe weight loss secondary to anorexia nervosa causing bilateral superficial peroneal nerve entrapment in a young female patient who was treated successfully by bilateral surgical decompression.


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