title: Usefulness of ultrasonography in operation for pulmonary arteriovenous fistula.
abstract: A 54-year-old woman presented with nonhereditary, bilateral pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas. One of them was small (10 x 10 mm) and embedded in the parenchyma; it was neither visible nor palpable from the pleural surface. We therefore used intraoperative ultrasonography and succeeded in detecting and enucleating the small fistula with minimal resection of the normal lung tissue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Sendai Kosei Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Aikawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Okaniwa
mesh_terms: D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000295:instrumentation; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000295:instrumentation