Brief recordings: fibrosarcoma of the thigh associated with a prosthetic vascular graft.

PLASTIC fabrics have been used in vascular surgery since the early 1950's. In the following case a sarcoma occurred in association with a prosthetic vascular graft. Case Report A 31-year-old man was admitted to the Washington Veterans Administration Hospital on June 2, 1969, because of a rapidly growing mass on the anteromedial aspect of the left thigh of 3 weeks' duration. Ten and a half years previously a laceration of the left superficial femoral artery had been repaired with a short section of a woven Teflon-Dacron prosthetic graft. Physical examination revealed a firm, non-tender, nonpulsatile mass, 8 by 10 cm, . . .

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