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Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome

Background

Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome is a rare congenital disorder of blood vessel abnormalities resulting in port wine stains which are present at birth on a limb along with enlargement of that limb.

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Medical text written October 1998 by Dr J Harper. Last updated November 2004 by Professor J Harper, Consultant in Paediatric Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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