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Case Reports
. 2011:2011:612657.
doi: 10.1155/2011/612657. Epub 2011 Jul 6.

Arteriovenous malformation of the pancreas

Alexandros Charalabopoulos  1 , Nikolas Macheras, Sylvia Krivan, Konstantinos Petropoulos, Evangelos Misiakos, Anastasios Macheras
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Case Reports

Arteriovenous malformation of the pancreas

Alexandros Charalabopoulos et al. Case Rep Med. 2011.

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.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Contrast-enhanced axial CT scan through the pancreas shows a large hypervascular mass in the pancreatic body and tail. Note the presence of dilated perisplenic vessels.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Superior mesenteric angiogram shows prominent vascularity in the pancreatic mass during the arterial phase.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Contrast-enhanced axial CT scan through the pancreas after the embolization of the tumor shows multiple hyperdense embolic particles in the pancreatic tumor and also in the spleen and the right liver lobe.
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