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The possibility of an occult space-occupying lesion compressing the PTN should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of TTS, and imaging studies that are usually not used in entrapment neuropathies may be of importance in such patients. This case report presents a 65-year-old woman with TTS symptoms and neurophysiologic findings secondary to an occult schwannoma of the PTN proximal to the tarsal tunnel. 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