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Outcome of Sturge-Weber syndrome in 52 adults.
Am J Med Genet
May 1995
Division of Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver 80218-1088, USA.
Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by cutaneous facial angioma, leptomeningeal angioma associated with seizures and other neurologic complications including mental retardation, and glaucoma. Only limited information about long-term outcome, including the societal integration of adult patients, is available in the literature. Data on 52 adults with SWS, ages 18-63 years, ascertained through the Sturge-Weber Foundation, were obtained via written questionnaires, telephone interviews, and reviews of medical records.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSturge-Weber syndrome: age of onset of seizures and glaucoma and the prognosis for affected children.
J Child Neurol
January 1995
Division of Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Denver 80218-1088, USA.
Data were obtained on 171 individuals with Sturge-Weber syndrome via questionnaire and medical records. The age of the study group ranged from 2 months to 59 years; the median was 8 years. In addition to the facial location of port-wine stains in the areas of the trigeminal dermatomes present in 170 patients, 45% also had extracranial port-wine stains over the torso and/or extremities, and 17% had other vascular or pigmentary lesions.
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