Arteriovenous fistula complicating an inferior gluteal artery perforator flap donor site
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Declan A Lannon1, Christine B Novak, Peter C Neligan
1Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
|May 14, 2008
We report the case of a 59-year-old woman who developed an arteriovenous fistula in her right buttock following a right inferior gluteal artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction.
We report the case of a 59-year-old woman who developed an arteriovenous fistula in her right buttock following a right inferior gluteal artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction.
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