BACKGROUND Benign lesions of the nasal cavity represent a diverse group of pathologies. Furthermore, each of these disorders may present differently in any given patient as pain and discomfort, epistaxis, headaches, vision changes, or nasal obstruction. Although these nasal masses are benign, many of them have a significant capacity for local tissue destruction and symptomatology secondary to ...

Telangiectasia may be identified by visual inspection during physical examination of the skin and oral cavity or by endoscopy. Diagnosis is made after clinical examination and genetic testing based on the Curacao criteria: telangiectasia in the face, hands or oral cavity; recurrent epistaxis; arteriovenous malformations with visceral involvement; and a positive family history. Diagnosis is conf...

While the literature pertaining to hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu disease) has been quite extensive, very few reports have dealt with the neurological manifestations of the disease. Occasional anatomical studies have appeared, but reports of neuropathological findings have been rare. The purpose of the present paper is to provide neuropathological observations in a pa...

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia is a rare autosomal-dominant condition affecting visceral blood vessel development. Cerebral and most commonly pulmonary arteriovenous malformations are found in the majority of symptomatic patients. The most common complications include embolic strokes and cerebral abscesses, which have been attributed to abnormal vessel communications. Platypnea orthodeox...

1. Ataxia Telangiectasia (includes Ataxia Telangiectasia 12 Complementation Groups A, C, D, E, Louis–Barr Syndrome) 2. Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome, Nevoid Basal Cell 18 Carcinoma Syndrome, or Gorlin Syndrome 3. Beckwith–Wiedemann Syndrome 19 (Exomphalos–Macroglossia–Gigantism Syndrome) 4. Birt–Hogg–Dubé Syndrome 20 5. Bloom Syndrome 21 6. Breast/Ovarian Cancer, Hereditary (BRCA1) 22 7. Breast/Ova...

Telangiectasia-associated hepatic fibrosis (TAHF) in a 68-year-old woman with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is described. The patient died of oat-cell carcinoma of the lung. In addition to the structural alterations which have been described previously in HHT, the liver exhibited focal midlobular hepatocytic necrosis and tumour metastases. The possibility that treatment of HHT wa...

To cite: Abangah G, Rashidbeygi M. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013201034 DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department reporting of fresh rectal bleeding since 3 days ago. She had a history of spontaneous recurrent epistaxis since childhood but had never been fully evaluated. Her family history was also notable for a so...