Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula in association with recurrent cerebral abscess.
Cerebral abscess secondary to a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation is rare, but a definite entity. A case is reported of a woman treated for a cerebral abscess on 2 separate occasions, where a right lower lobectomy and removal of a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula has resulted in cure.
Gibbons
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McIlrath
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Bailey
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D000328:Adult; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed