Chronic skin lesions of the thigh (wounds, fistulas etc) are relatively uncommon, vis-à-vis, their notorious cousins over the distal limb. Even when present, the cause is usually obvious, mostly as trauma or a systemic affliction. We present an unusual case of chronic fistulas over the right thigh in a patient of carcinoma rectum for which anterior resection and an end colostomy was done 4 years earlier. Postsurgical pelvic abscesses finding their way into the thigh are a known entity, but they are usually accompanied by systemic/local features and their presentation is within a shorter time span. The novelty of our case lies in its manifestation (as a cluster of chronic fistulas and not a frank abscess), its late presentation as well as in the absence of any systemic/local inflammatory signs. Our primary objective is to educate wound physicians about the origin of such fistulas whenever they deal with patients who have had a preceding surgical intervention of the abdomen. In our humble opinion, this will ease out many diagnostic and management dilemmas, that such patients can potentially pose.

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