A complicated case of arteriovenous malformation of mandible.

ABSTRACT

A 10-year old boy presented with sever hemorrhage from right lower gum after an attempt to remove a mobile premolar milk tooth. Physical examination and carotid angiography revealed a large arteriovenous malfmation of mandible. The patient had aspiration of blood into the lung, pulmonary oedema and pneumothorax as anaesthetic complications while being anaesthesized for angiography. The initial treatment was embolization of the feeders of this arteriovenous malformation and extraction of all mobile teeth.