Soft tissue infections and osteomyelitis and intravenous port – case report

Małgorzata Lipiec; Elwira Góraj

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Medycyna Paliatywna/Palliative Medicine

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Case report

Soft tissue infections and osteomyelitis and intravenous port – case report

Małgorzata Lipiec

,

Elwira Góraj

Medycyna Paliatywna 2016; 8(3): 149–153

Online publish date: 2017/01/04

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Continuous intravenous access is increasingly recommended for cancer patients. Intravenous ports are an undeniable convenience for patients and can be an easy and reliable vascular access for many months or even years. Early and late complications of the intravenous port implantation include, among others, port pocket infection, whose percentage is estimated at 0.8-7.5%.

The presented case concerns a patient with metastatic lung cancer, who suffered an early infection of intravenous pocket port, and who underwent a coronary artery bypass grafting followed by a deep infection of surgical wound 2.5 years earlier.

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Soft tissue infections and osteomyelitis and intravenous port – case report

Małgorzata Lipiec , Elwira Góraj

intravenous port, MSSA, infection osteomyelitis

Małgorzata Lipiec

,

Elwira Góraj