Annals of African Medicine | 2019
High-Flow Type of Peripheral Arteriovenous Malformation Causing Severe Cosmetic Deformity
Abstract
Annals of African Medicine ¦ Volume 18 ¦ Issue 2 ¦ April-June 2019 117 peripheral vascular malformation (PVM). Arterial supply of the PVM was from the ulnar and radial arteries with venous drainage into the cephalic and basilic veins. Doppler tracing in the basilic and cephalic veins showed arterialization of the venous channels [Figure 2d]. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation, the PVM was seen infiltrating into musculature of the hand with aneurysmal dilatation at few sites. Thenar/hypothenar and small muscles of the hand were poorly identified with evidence of atrophy [Figure 3].