Treatment of peripheral congenital arterio-venous fistulas.
The authors describe their experience in the treatment of peripheral congenital A-V fistulas in 64 cases. Different surgical procedures (skeletation, "en bloc resection") have been performed in 19 patients, embolization in 15 patients. The need for a more radical and definitive procedure has induced the authors, in a recent series of 6 patients, to associate embolization and surgical therapy in the same operative session. The results are encouraging. The technique is reported.
D000328:Adult; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002404:Catheterization; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence