Compartment syndrome complicating metastatic malignant melanoma.

Compartment syndrome is well documented in the literature. Neoplasia as a cause is a rare. We report a patient with known metastatic malignant melanoma presenting with a compartment syndrome of the arm caused by a relatively slow growing, non-invasive metastatic deposit. This was excised and the patient made an uneventful recovery. Copyright 2000 The British Association of Plastic Surgeons.