Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 64, Issue 3 , Pages 283-291 , March 2011

Surgical management of arteriovenous malformation

  • Anniek Visser

      Affiliations

    • Centre for the Study and Treatment of Vascular Birthmarks, Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial and Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, New Zealand
    • ,
  • Trevor FitzJohn

      Affiliations

    • Centre for the Study and Treatment of Vascular Birthmarks, Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial and Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, New Zealand
    • ,
  • Swee T. Tan

      Affiliations

    • Centre for the Study and Treatment of Vascular Birthmarks, Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial and Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, New Zealand
    • The Gillies McIndoe Research Institute, New Zealand
    • University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Wellington Regional Plastic, Maxillofacial and Burns Unit, Hutt Hospital, Private Bag 31-907, High St, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. Tel.: +64 4 587 2506; fax: +64 4 587 2510.

Received 18 April 2010 ,Accepted 28 May 2010.

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☆ This article was presented, in part, at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Hong Kong College of Surgeons’ Conjoint Annual Scientific Congress, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, 11–16 May 2008 and at the 17th International Society for Study of Vascular Anomalies Workshop, Boston, USA, 21–24 June 2008.

PII: S1748-6815(10)00334-7

doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2010.05.033

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 64, Issue 3 , Pages 283-291 , March 2011

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