[Complications of arterial ports]

The authors present an account on an unusual complication of an arterial port inserted via the a. gastroduodenalis after four doses of cytostatics thus administered after a non-anatomical resection of the right liver lobe on account of a metastasis of carcinoma of the colon. The latter caused necrosis of the hepatoduodenal ligament and formation of a fistula into the biliary tree, fistula into the venous portal circulation and thrombosis of the hepatic artery.