A CURIOUS SYNDROME, WITH SIGNS SUGGESTING CERVICAL ARTERIO-VENOUS FISTULA, AND THE PULSES OF NECK AND ARMS LOST

Abstract

A married woman of 33 years was admitted to hospital on November 25, 1941, complaining of attacks of faintness. She is said to have been rickety as a child and was not allowed to swim at school. After growing up she attended hospital for deafness of her left ear. A doctor -xamining her in her twenty-sixth year found no pulse at the wrist.