Posterior mediastinal arteriovenous malformation: report of a case.

J Thorac Imaging

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Published: May 2008

Vascular malformations of the mediastinum are extremely rare. We report a histologically proven case of a posterior mediastinal arteriovenous malformation in a 54-year-old woman simulating a mediastinal tumor and we describe the findings in conventional radiography, computed tomography, and digital subtraction angiography.

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