| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | sturgeweber_2_021122 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME / VASCULAR MALFORMATION | Category: | vascular malformation / congenital malformation / radiology | ||
| Body Site: | head / brain | Age: | 0 | ||
| Contributor: | Anne Comi, MD | ||||
| Description: | Gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome demonstrates a left sided leptomeningeal angioma | ||||
| Comments: | Sturge-Weber syndrome is defined by the presence of a facial portwine stain, ususlly in the distribution of the first branch of the trigemminal nerve, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal vascular malformation. The choroid of the ipsilateral eye may be involved leading to glaucoma. | ||||
| Related Images: | sturgeweber_1_021122 | ||||
| © 2001-2009, DermAtlas | Image Name: | sturgeweber_1_021122 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME / VASCULAR MALFORMATION | Category: | vascular malformation / congenital malformation / radiology | ||
| Body Site: | head / brain | Age: | 0 | ||
| Contributor: | Anne Comi, MD | ||||
| Description: | Head computed tomography from a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome showing atrophy and calcification of the left side of the brain | ||||
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| Related Images: | sturgeweber_2_021122 | ||||
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