title: Arteriovenous malformation of the pancreas.
abstract: Pancreatic arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) is a very rare and mostly congenital lesion, with less than 80 cases described in the English-published literature. It is defined as a tumorous vascular abnormality that is constructed between an anomalous bypass anastomosis of the arterial and venous networks within the pancreas. It represents about 5% of all arteriovenous malformations found in the gastrointestinal tract. Herein, we present a 64-year-old patient with symptomatic PAVM involving the body and tail of the organ, which was successfully treated by transcatheter arterial embolization. The disease spectrum and review of the literature are also presented.
authors.affiliation: 3rd Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, University of Athens School of Medicine, 1 Rimini Street, Chaidari, 124 62 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Alexandros
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Charalabopoulos
authors.forename: Nikolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Macheras
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Krivan
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Petropoulos
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Misiakos
authors.forename: Anastasios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Macheras