title: Post-traumatic thoracic arteriovenous fistulas.
abstract: Post-traumatic arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) between vascular structures in the thorax rarely occur. We present an unusual case of the delayed diagnosis of two post-traumatic thoracic AVF in a 70-year-old male. He had abnormal communications between an intercostal artery and an intercostal vein as well as an intercostal artery and a pulmonary vein. He has remained asymptomatic and has not developed a complication from these abnormal vascular structures in a three-year follow up.
authors.affiliation: Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home, TN 37684-4000, USA.
authors.forename: Payam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pooyan
authors.forename: Lata
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Sujatha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goli
authors.forename: Ryland P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Byrd
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls; D000368:Aged; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D019567:Back Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed