Popliteal 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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