Open AccessStent Graft Expulsion Outside the Skin: A Rare Case
Author(s) -
Ahmet Kalkan,
Bas B,
Taylan Kocer,
Şeref Emre Atiş,
Sevilay Sema Ünver,
Yavuz Selim Koca
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in skin and wound care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-8654
pISSN - 1527-7941
DOI - 10.1097/01.asw.0000658600.54384.0b
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , stent , foreign body , hematoma , presentation (obstetrics) , skin grafting , amputation , abscess , case presentation , occlusion
Patients who undergo stent grafting may present to the ED some time after the procedure with various related symptoms. The most common of these are stent graft occlusions or hematoma, although infection or abscess also may develop. In this case report, a 58-year-old man presented to the ED with a purulent wound on the stump of an amputated leg and a foreign body protruding from the wound site. The patient had a history of stent insertion with femoropopliteal bypass 11 years before this incident and an above-the-knee amputation because of stent occlusion 8 years prior. This wound had appeared with reddening of the skin 1 month before presentation, followed by the emergence and protrusion of a foreign body.