Highlights a rare case of epithelioid angiosarcoma developing at the site of a nonfunctioning arteriovenous fistula in an immunosuppressed kidney transplant recipient.
Hypothesis-generating for angiosarcoma at nonfunctioning AVF sites in transplant recipients; larger studies needed to assess risk.
Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm of the endothelial cells of blood vessels or lymphatics. We report a case of a 46-year-old male patient with a kidney transplant who developed epithelioid angiosarcoma at the site of a nonfunctioning arteriovenous fistula in the antecubital fossa 3 years after renal transplantation. The patient had skin, soft tissue, and bone metastasis on presentation. He died of systemic metastasis with respiratory failure.
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