Surgical management of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas.

In the post decade seven patients have been operated for pulmonary arteriovenous fistula at the 3rd Department of Surgery of the Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest. Three of the patients were adults, the others being children and adolescents. Fistules were localized in the left lower lobe in four cases, and in the right upper lobe in three cases. Two of the patients displayed bilateral fistules. The type of the operation was lobectomy in six cases and enucleation in one case. The symptoms, the diagnostic and surgical methods and the results obtained are discussed.