Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case

BACKGROUND: Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome (KTWS) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome. Hemimegalencephaly (HME) and seizure episodes have been reported previously in a few cases with KTWS. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a 3 day-old girl with partial motor seizures, extensive port-wine staining an...

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Autores principales: Esmailzadeh, Hossein, Tavassoli, Azita, Jahangiri N, Younes, Vatankhah, Nasibeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056878
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author Esmailzadeh, Hossein
Tavassoli, Azita
Jahangiri N, Younes
Vatankhah, Nasibeh
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Tavassoli, Azita
Jahangiri N, Younes
Vatankhah, Nasibeh
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description BACKGROUND: Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome (KTWS) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome. Hemimegalencephaly (HME) and seizure episodes have been reported previously in a few cases with KTWS. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a 3 day-old girl with partial motor seizures, extensive port-wine staining and mild structural deformities in the feet, and a hemimegalencephaly. CONCLUSION: Occurrence of partial motor seizures in addition to bilateral lower extremities extensive port-wine staining is a unique feature seen in our case.
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spelling pubmed-34482322012-10-09 Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case Esmailzadeh, Hossein Tavassoli, Azita Jahangiri N, Younes Vatankhah, Nasibeh Iran J Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome (KTWS) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome. Hemimegalencephaly (HME) and seizure episodes have been reported previously in a few cases with KTWS. CASE PRESENTATION: We report here a 3 day-old girl with partial motor seizures, extensive port-wine staining and mild structural deformities in the feet, and a hemimegalencephaly. CONCLUSION: Occurrence of partial motor seizures in addition to bilateral lower extremities extensive port-wine staining is a unique feature seen in our case. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3448232/ /pubmed/23056878 Text en © 2012 Iranian Journal of Pediatrics & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Jahangiri N, Younes
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title Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case
title_full Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case
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title_full_unstemmed Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case
title_short Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome with Hemimegalencephaly; Report of a Pediatric Case
title_sort klippel-trenaunay-weber syndrome with hemimegalencephaly; report of a pediatric case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056878
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