A man in his 80s undergoing chronic hemodialysis presented with a high fever. A 10-cm soft mass was palpable in his right buttock. Abdominal computed tomography and angiography showed an incomplete-type unilateral persistent sciatic artery aneurysm (PSAA) with gas patterns and a blood flow through the aneurysm. Incision drainage was performed after arterial embolization. Gram staining of the hematoma showed gram-positive cocci that had formed chains, thus leading to a diagnosis of an infected PSAA. Drainage by incision after arterial embolization was used as the therapeutic method of choice for a massive infected PSAA with a sustained blood flow in order to prevent sciatic nerve injury and bleeding associated with PSAA resection.

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