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Arteriovenous malformations and other vascular malformation syndromes.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Feb 2013
Whitehead Kevin J, Smith Matthew C P, Li Dean Y
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Vascular malformations are a disruption of the normal vascular pattern in which it is expected that a capillary network of microscopic vessels lies interposed between high-pressure arteries that deliver blood and thin-walled veins that collect low-pressure blood for return to the heart. In the case of arteriovenous malformations, arteries or arterioles connect directly to the venous collection system, bypassing...
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