Springbok World Rugby player of the year Pieter-Steph du Toit was lucky to avoid a leg amputation following a freak injury against the Blues earlier this month, it has been revealed.
Du Toit faces three months on the sideline with a leg injury sustained in the 33-14 defeat at Newlands and the Stormers doctor has revealed it could have got very serious.
"He had a medical emergency after the Blues game. He had a haematoma that developed into an acute compartment syndrome. It's incredibly rare - there have been only 43 (cases) listed in the literature (worldwide)," Stormers team doctor Jason Suter told South African news site Sport 24.
"It's a medical emergency because if you don't pick it up early they lose blood supply to the leg and they lose the leg.
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