RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Ruptured Baker's cyst with compartment syndrome: an extremely unusual complication
JF BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP bcr2012007901
DO 10.1136/bcr-2012-007901
VO 2012
A1 Mark Hamlet
A1 Ilias Galanopoulos
A1 Avinash Mahale
A1 Neil Ashwood
YR 2012
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr-2012-007901.abstract
AB A 69-year-old man presented with sudden onset of pain with acute tense swelling of his left leg. Initially he was treated empirically with antibiotics for cellulitis while the possibility of deep vein thrombosis was ruled out. His symptoms gradually worsened with progressive distal neurological deficit and increasing pain. Further investigations suggested that he had a ruptured Baker's cyst in the calf with development of compartment syndrome.