Walsh & Hoyt: Clinical Features

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Identifier wh_ch38_p1870_5
Title Walsh & Hoyt: Clinical Features
Creator John Kerrison, MD
Affiliation Retina Consultants of Charleston
Subject Neurocutaneous Syndromes; Phacomatoses; Sturge-Weber Syndrome; Clinical Features
Description Infants born with facial angiomas have a 10% risk for ocular or pial vascular malformations consistent with SWS. The facial angioma, also called nevus flammeus or port-wine stain, appears as one or several dull, red, irregular patches. The reddish lesion is usually obvious, but occasionally it is pale and unappreciated. The patches are often located within the cutaneous distributions of the ophthalmic and maxillary divisions of the trigeminal nerve, especially around the orbit and upper eyelid. The skin supplied bythe mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve is less often affected. However, all three divisions of the trigeminal nerve maybe involved; hence, the designation of the syndrome as encephalo-trigeminal angiomatosis. The relationship to the trigeminal nerve, however, is coincidental to abnormal embryonic development of the vasculature that mostly affects cranial structures. Bifacial lesions pose a greater risk for bihemispheric angiomatosis, whereas, infants with facial angiomas that spare the upper face have a lower risk for intracranial involvement. Glaucoma. Choroidal angioma. Iris heterochromia. Conjunctiva angioma. Sclera angioma. Meningeal angioma. Seizure. Mental retardation. Focal neurological deficits. Migraine.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr56r5
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