Delineating the extent of capillary malformations in the operating suite can be challenging because of a variety of physiologic modifiers, including vasodilatation induced by anesthesia, reactive erythema, and filtering of colors with protective laser eyewear. The use of traditional surgical pens to mark the treatment field has limitations; we have found the use of a white eyeliner pencil to delineate lesions a contemporary technique that assists in identifying the target tissue intraoperatively.
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Pediatr Dermatol
December 2024
Pediatric Dermatology Department, Barcelona Children's Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Many vascular anomalies harbor postzygotic somatic variants in GNAQ and GNA11; however, the phenotype of specific G-protein variants has not been well described. We report the clinical characteristics of 17 patients with a GNA11 R183C variant.
Methods: This case series is derived from a multinational cohort of vascular anomaly patients whose pathogenic mutations were identified using high-depth next generation sequencing.
Arch Dermatol Res
November 2024
Department of Geriatrics, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610000, China.
Sci Rep
October 2024
The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) disorders are caused by somatic mosaic variants that result in constitutive activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/AKT/mTOR pathway. Promising responses to molecularly targeted therapy have been reported, although identification of an appropriate agent can be hampered by the mosaic nature and corresponding low variant allele frequency of the causal variant. Moreover, our understanding of the molecular consequences of these variants-for example how they affect gene expression profiles-remains limited.
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October 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation (CM-AVM) syndrome is characterized by the presence of multiple small (1-2 cm in diameter) capillary malformations of the skin. This disorder has been described as two distinct entities: CM-AVM1 and CM-AVM2. The diagnosis of these disorders has been associated with pathogenic variants in the RASA1 gene for RASA1-CM-AVM, formerly known as CM-AVM1, and, more recently, the EPHB4 genes for EPHB4-CM-AVM, formerly known as CM-AVM2.
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