Capillary-venule malformation is a microfistulous variant of arteriovenous malformation

Objective To describe typical clinical presentation of patients with microfistular, capillary-venule (CV) malformation as a variant form arteriovenous malformations (AVM). Methods A retrospective analysis 15 CV-AVM confirmed by computational flow model enrolled in prospective database congenital vascular between January 2008 and May 2018. Results The mean age the at first time was 30 years balanced sex ratio. Presentation dominated soft tissue hypertrophy (n = 12 [80.0%]) atypical varicose veins 11 [73.3%]). anatomic location enlarged gave no uniform pattern did not correspond picture primary vein disease. Most often, symptomatic found lower extremities this series unselected patients. most frequent compartment affected subcutis 14 [93.3%]), involvement muscle recorded one-third cutis one-fourth Conclusions high grade suspicion is needed to recognize prevent inadequate therapy owing missed diagnosis.