J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 92(6): 753-756, 1991

Case report

RECONSTRUCTION OF FEMORAL VEIN USING ePTFE GRAFTS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan
Department of Orthopedics, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan

Tsutomu Ohara, Kanae Fukushima, Tsuguo Hasegawa, Isao Ohki

Rare cases of reconstruction of peripheral veins were reported. We experienced two patients with liposarcomas of the thigh in which the femoral vessels were resected with the tumor and recon5tructed with ePTFE grafts. In a 51-year-old male, the left femoral vein was reconstructed with an ePTFE graft 6mm in diameter and 11cm in length, but the graft occluded early in the postoperative period. In another case, a 33-year-old male, the right femoral vein was reconstructed with a ringed ePTFE graft 8mm in diameter and 9cm in length, with an arterio-venous fistula. The graft maintained its patency for 7 months after surgery.

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