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Iatrogenic mammary arteriovenous fistula caused by sternal wire
J Silva1, J Gonzalez-Santos, M Pérez
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gregorio Marañon Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 4, 1998
Abstract:
Internal mammary arteriovenous fistulas are a rare complication of sternotomy. We present a case of a 64-year-old woman with a poststernotomy fistula between the left mammary vein and artery with formation of a pseudoaneurysm with subcutaneous extension. We describe the different imaging techniques that led to the diagnosis and the resolution of the fistula via endovascular embolization.

