scholarly journals Sturge Weber Syndrome

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Kazi Nilufar Moly ◽  
S.M. Abu Ahsan ◽  
Md. Shafiqul Lslam

<p>Sturge weber syndrome is a rare sporadic condition of mesodermal phacomatosis, also called encephalotrigeminal angio­matosis (synonyms : fourth phacomatosis or mother spot), is a neurocutaneous disorder with angiomas that involve the leptomeninges (leptomeningeal angiomas) and the skin of the face (purple colored flat cutaneous haemangiomas ), typically in the ophthalmic (V1) and maxillary (V2) distributions of the trigeminal nerve. The hallmark of sturge weber syndrome is a facial cutaneous venous dilation, also referred to as a nevus flammeus or port wine stain (PWS). Because of the rarity, we report here a one &amp; half year old male child who presented with features of the Sturge Weber Syndrome on both side of face.</p>

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Devayani Shinde ◽  
Yogesh G Dabholkar ◽  
Akanksha A Saberwal ◽  
Haritosh Kamalakar Velankar ◽  
Adip K Shetty

ABSTRACT Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) or encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis is a rare neurocutaneous disorder characterized with vascular malformations and capillary venous angiomas involving the face, choroid of the eye and leptomeninges with port wine stain, seizures activity and mental retardation. In this paper we report a case of a patient affected by Sturge-Weber syndrome presenting with tongue hemangioma and emphasize the importance of an accurate diagnosis and management in the clinical practice. How to cite this article Shinde D, Dabholkar YG, Saberwal AA, Velankar HK, Shetty AK. Use of Intralesional Bleomycin for Oral Hemangioma of Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Int J Head Neck Surg 2015;6(1):17-19.


2018 ◽  
pp. 1406-1408
Author(s):  
Jason E. Hale ◽  
Sumayya J. Almarzouqi ◽  
Michael L. Morgan ◽  
Andrew G. Lee

Author(s):  
Jason E. Hale ◽  
Sumayya J. Almarzouqi ◽  
Michael L. Morgan ◽  
Andrew G. Lee

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 785-786
Author(s):  
Alvin H. Jacobs

Drs. Gorman and Snead bring up a purely semantic question: "What is the Sturge-Weber syndrome?" According to McKusick,1 Sturge-Weber syndrome, sometimes called the fourth phacomatosis, is characterized by nevus flammeus of the face and angioma of the meninges. Warkany2 states that it "consists of a facial port wine nevus, convulsions and other neurological manifestations." In fact, the latter author, in discussing reported cases, rules out as Sturge-Weber syndrome a case with the CNS changes but no skin involvement.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Prashant Babaji ◽  
Anju Bansal ◽  
Gopal Krishna Choudhury ◽  
Rashmita Nayak ◽  
Ashok Kodangala Prabhakar ◽  
...  

Sturge-Weber syndrome is a rare nonhereditary developmental condition with neurological and skin disorder, characterized by presence of port wine stain on the face along with ocular disorders, oral manifestations and leptomeningeal angiomas. Here we present an unusual case of Sturge-Weber syndrome with osseous hypertrophy of maxilla.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Butchibabu Kalakonda ◽  
Koppolu Pradeep ◽  
Ashank Mishra ◽  
Krishnanjaneya Reddy ◽  
Tupili Muralikrishna ◽  
...  

Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a sporadic disorder and is frequent among the neurocutaneous syndromes specifically with vascular predominance. This syndrome consists of constellation of clinical features like facial nevus, seizures, hemiparesis, intracranial calcifications, and mental retardation. It is characterized by focal port-wine stain, ocular abnormalities (glaucoma), and choroidal hemangioma and leptomeningeal angioma most often involving occipital and parietal lobes. The present paper reports three cases of SWS with oral manifestations and periodontal management, which included thorough scaling and root planing followed by gingivectomy with scalpel and laser in cases 1 and 3 consecutively to treat the gingival enlargement. However, the treatment in case 2 was deferred as the patient was not a candidate for periodontal surgery.


2021 ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Om Prakash Singh ◽  
Vikas Kumar ◽  
Pushp Kant Tiwari

Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is one of the encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis and one of the important segmental vascular neurocutaneous disorders .The occurrence is not very uncommon and the prevalence is 1:20000 to 1:50000.(1) SWS occurs due to the presence of residual embryonic vessels . The various signs and symptoms include capillary malformation in the face a port wine birthmark and similar malformation in the brain involving leptomeniges as well as blood vessels of the eye causing glaucoma. The patient presents with seizures , hemiparesis and stroke like symptoms, headaches and developmental delay.(2) The imaging nding in SWS children is the calcication in the parietal and occipital area of the brain. The EEG ndings in SWS are the attenuation and the excess of slow activities.We are presenting here a rare case of , a fourteen year old male child who presented to our emergency department with status epilepticus. The aim of presenting this case is to share the classical presentation and the challenges involved in the management


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 2243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vi Nguyen ◽  
Marcelo Hochman ◽  
Martin C. Mihm ◽  
J. Stuart Nelson ◽  
Wenbin Tan

Port wine stain (PWS) is a congenital vascular malformation involving human skin. Approximately 15–20% of children a facial PWS involving the ophthalmic (V1) trigeminal dermatome are at risk for Sturge Weber syndrome (SWS), a neurocutaneous disorder with vascular malformations in the cerebral cortex on the same side of the facial PWS lesions. Recently, evidence has surfaced that advanced our understanding of the pathogenesis of PWS/SWS, including discoveries of somatic genetic mutations (GNAQ, PI3K), MAPK and PI3K aberrant activations, and molecular phenotypes of PWS endothelial cells. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on the etiology and pathology of PWS/SWS based on evidence that the activation of MAPK and/or PI3K contributes to the malformations, as well as potential futuristic treatment approaches targeting these aberrantly dysregulated signaling pathways. Current data support that: (1) PWS is a multifactorial malformation involving the entire physiological structure of human skin; (2) PWS should be pathoanatomically re-defined as “a malformation resulting from differentiation-impaired endothelial cells with a progressive dilatation of immature venule-like vasculatures”; (3) dysregulation of vascular MAPK and/or PI3K signaling during human embryonic development plays a part in the pathogenesis and progression of PWS/SWS; and (4) sporadic low frequency somatic mutations, such as GNAQ, PI3K, work as team players but not as a lone wolf, contributing to the development of vascular phenotypes. We also address many crucial questions yet to be answered in the future research investigations.


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