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January 1, 2019
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is an autosomal-dominant, highly penetrant, and variable multisystem disorder caused by maldevelopment of capillaries. The condition used to be called Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome. The major features are epistaxis, mucoc ...
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November 13, 2014
Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is the association of the facial port-wine birthmark with malformed leptomeningeal blood vessels and abnormal venous eye vessels. Occurrence is sporadic and in both males and females and reported in all racial and ethnic backgro ...
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January 1, 2005
Four categories of cerebrovascular lesions have been identified: telangiectasias, venous malformations, arteri-ovenous malformations, and cavernous malformations. Telangiectasias are vascular lesions composed of small vessels separated by normal brain tiss ...
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