[Hemodialysis: the arteriovenous fistula in the wrist]

The arterio-venous fistulaula distal to the processus styloideus radii in the "tabatière" offers a most useful additional and very peripheral vascular access for chronic hemodialysis. It in no way compromises the further construction of arterio-venous anastomoses in the forearm in fistula failure. The results of 53 such fistulas are reported.