Wyburn-Mason syndrome subcutaneous angioma extirpation after preliminary embolisation

In a 38-year-old women, suffering from the Bonnet-Blanc/Wyburn-Mason syndrome, a very disfiguring, pulsating 'angioma', situated left frontally, was successfully extirpated after gelfoam embolisation of the supplying external carotid artery. The patient, suffering from this syndrome which until recently was hardly amenable to treatment, could thus, thanks to modern embolisation technique and the great importance of a multidisciplinary approach by the ophthalmologist, neurologist, surgeon and radiologist.