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Sturge-Weber syndrome
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English
Sturge–Weber syndrome
Etymology
Named after William Allen Sturge and Frederick Parkes Weber.
Noun
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A rare type of angiophakomatosis characterized by abnormal blood vessels on the surface of the brain, and often associated with port-wine stains of the face, glaucoma, seizures, mental retardation, and ipsilateral leptomeningeal angioma.
Synonyms
en encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
Hypernyms
en phakomatosis#Noun
en angiophakomatosis#Noun
Coordinate terms
en von Hippel–Lindau disease
en eponyms