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Sturge-Weber syndrome

Monday 23 June 2003

MIM.185300

Synopsis

 sporadic (isolated cases)
 macrocephaly
 facial hemangioma
 choroidal hemangioma
 glaucoma
 buphthalmos
 hemangioma in at least first branch (ophthalmic) of trigeminal nerve (unilateral or occasionally bilateral)
 arachnoid hemangioma
 cerebral cortical atrophy

Etiology:

 somatic mosaicism (12221183)


 MIM.185300