Cutaneous hemangioma associated with persistence of the trigeminal and both proatlantal arteries
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Published on: July 5, 2011
I Pascual-Castroviejo1, J C Lopez-Gutierrez
1Pediatric Neurology Service, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. i.pcastroviejo@neurologia.e.telefonica.net
Abstract:
The authors describe a girl who was evaluated at 7 years old because of facial segmental hemangioma associated with unilateral persistent trigeminal artery, bilateral proatlantal arteries, hypoplasia of 1 posterior cerebral artery, kinking of 1 internal carotid artery at 2 different levels, and transdural collateral vascularization supplying the posterior areas of the cerebral hemispheres. This is the first patient known to have a cutaneous hemangioma associated with bilateral proatlantal arteries despite having a unilateral facial hemangioma.
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