title: Surgical treatment of congenital pelvic arteriovenous malformation.
abstract: Congenital arteriovenous fistulas often pose difficult diagnostic and management problems. Surgical therapy has been associated with a propensity for incomplete obliteration and recurrence. A case of a large congenital pelvic arteriovenous malformation, initially misdiagnosed as an atrial septal defect, was defined by selective roentgenographic and contrast echographic techniques and successfully treated by total surgical excision.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010388:Pelvis / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography