Evolutionary clinical-therapeutic study of ocular manifestations in encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis by Marieta Dumitrache in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences
Evolutionary clinical-therapeutic study of ocular manifestations in encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis by Marieta Dumitrache in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences Abstract Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a sporadic dysembryopathy, a neuro-oculo-cutaneous phakomatosis, which is characterized by capillary, facial, ocular and cerebral malformations, with the presence of congenital vascular mesodermal hamartomas. In its full form, SWS presents: facial angioma, leptomeningeal hemangioma, and ocular abnormalities with glaucoma and choroidal hemangioma. The treatment of facial angioma has questionable results, but early laser treatment could reduce the partial progression of the angioma. Leptomeningial hemangioma is accompanied by early epilepsy, controlled in 40% of cases with anticonvulsant treatment and severe neurological manifestations. Ocular manifestations in SWS are ipsilateral to the facial angioma, they are located in the eyelid, conj...