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Arteriovenous fistula. A potential complication of venipuncture
1Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla 92093.
Archives of Internal Medicine
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
We describe a very unusual complication of venipuncture: an arteriovenous fistula between the brachial artery and median cubital vein. The clinical presentation and treatment of arteriovenous fistulas and methods of preventing this complication are reviewed.