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A 3D Organotypic Melanoma Spheroid Skin Model
Published on: May 18, 2018
Compartment syndrome complicating metastatic malignant melanoma
D J Simmons1, S M Wharton, R Waters
1Department of Plastic and Burns Surgery, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|March 30, 2000
Abstract:
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.
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