title: Ruptured Baker's cyst with compartment syndrome: an extremely unusual complication.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Queen's Hospital, Burton-on-Trent, UK. galanop.ilias@gmail.com
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamlet
authors.forename: Ilias
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Galanopoulos
authors.forename: Avinash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahale
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ashwood
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003161:Compartment Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011151:Popliteal Cyst / Q000150:complications*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous