Sturge-Weber syndrome with extensive intracranial calcifications contralateral to the bulk of the facial nevus, normal intelligence, and absent seizure disorder.

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  • R R Chaudary
  • A Brudnicki
چکیده

Sturge-Weber syndrome is a rare condition first described by Sturge in 1879 in a case report of an epileptic patient [1] . The association of intracranial calcifications was subsequently described by Weber in 1922, giving this condition its familiar eponym [2] . The classical findings include gyriform intracranial calcifications, congenital and usually unilateral capillary facial nevus, convulsive disorder, glaucoma, some degree of mental deficiency, and hemiparesis and hemiatrophy.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

دوره 8 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1987