Two-Year Delayed Healing of an Endovascular Access Site Related to an Unusual Etiology.

In this case report, the authors describe a patient who underwent an endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair complicated by more than a 2-year delay in healing of the left inguinal fold access site. Providers initially suspected a chronic infection or foreign body reaction, but eventually the...

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Publicado en:Advances in Skin & Wound Care Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 272 - 276
Autores principales: Bohanon, Carol Jeorg, Kiemele, Lester James
Formato: case study pictorial Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins May2020
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Sumario:In this case report, the authors describe a patient who underwent an endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair complicated by more than a 2-year delay in healing of the left inguinal fold access site. Providers initially suspected a chronic infection or foreign body reaction, but eventually the patient was diagnosed with superficial granulomatous pyoderma. Once the correct etiology was determined and appropriate treatment begun, the access site healed within 3 weeks.