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Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 251-254 , June 2010

An arteriovenous fistula of the maxillary artery as a complication of Le Fort I osteotomy

Laetitia Goffinet, MD
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. D. Goga), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France
- Laetitia GOFFINET, MD, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, Trousseau Hospital, 37044 Tours, France. Tel.: +33 02 47 47 46 40; Fax: +33 02 47 47 90 85.
Boris Laure, MD
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. D. Goga), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France
Talel Tayeb, MD
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. D. Goga), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France
Defne Amado, MD
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Denis Herbreteau, PhD, MD
- Department of Neuroradiology (Head: Prof. Dr. D. Herbreteau), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France
Philippe Arbeille, PhD, MD
- Department of Nuclear Medicine (Head: Prof. Dr. P. Arbeille), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France
Dominique Goga, PhD, MD
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Head: Prof. Dr. D. Goga), Faculty of medicine, University of Tours, France

Received 2 April 2009 ,Accepted 3 July 2009.

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