Highlights the rare occurrence of angiosarcoma developing in a long-standing defunctionalized arteriovenous fistula.
May prompt consideration of angiosarcoma in longstanding defunctionalized AV fistulas; hypothesis-generating, prospective data needed before practice change.
We report a case of angiosarcoma developing in a defunctionalized arteriovenous fistula that had been created for hemodialysis approximately 20 years previously. At presentation the patient had a 30-year history of chronic renal failure and had undergone renal transplantation 10 years previously.
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