An Unusual Case of an Epidermoid Cyst Eroding into an Arteriovenous Graft Resulting in Graft Loss

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Anthony Feghali Kailyn Wilcox You Wang

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Anthony Feghali
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Vascular Surgery, Syracuse, 13210 NY

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Arteriovenous grafts (AVG) are unfortunately vulnerable to infection given their nature of being a foreign body that is routinely accessed in a patient population that typically has multiple comorbidities. Management of AVG infections can become more complex when a patient has exhausted all options of hemodialysis access and gets an infection involving the AVG or a chronic wound in closed proximity. Herein, we present a case of an epidermoid cyst that caused breakdown of a thigh PTFE dialysis graft, which became infected and encapsulated the femoral anastomosis.

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Received: Tue 14, Jan 2020
Accepted: Fri 24, Jan 2020
Published: Mon 30, Dec 2019

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© 2023 Anthony Feghali. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2019.01.01