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Arterio-venous fistula formation after hand replantation

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Replantation of a completely severed finger, hand or arm is now performed with wide success. We now report an extremely rare complication of this replantation, an arterio-venous (A-V) shunt formation. Pathogenesis of the new A-V fistual formation is discussed.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Nagoya University Branch Hospital, 1 Daiko-cho, Higashi-ku, 461, Nagoya, Japan

    Junichi Matsubara, Toshiyuki Seko, Takashi Ohta, Masafumi Hirai & Shigehiko Shionoya

  2. College of Medical Technology, Nagoya, Japan

    Ichiro Ban

  3. Kojima Hospital, Tokai-shi, Aichi, Japan

    Yoshio Inoue & Yoichi Kojima

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  1. Junichi Matsubara
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Matsubara, J., Seko, T., Ohta, T. et al. Arterio-venous fistula formation after hand replantation. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 13, 207–210 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02469478

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