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Sturge-Weber syndrome

Background

Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.

There is a facial birth mark (port wine stain), a layer of blood vessels over the covering of the brain (venous angioma of the leptomeninges) and there may be an angioma (collections of abnormal blood vessels) involving the inner lining of the eye (choroidal angioma). The angioma usually involves one side of the brain and varies in extent. More rarely it may involve both sides of the brain.

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Medical text written March 2003 by Dr S Aylett, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK and the National Centre For Young People With Epilepsy, Surrey, UK.

 

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