These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Hemangiomas, and cutaneous and intracranial vascular deformations (Pascual-Castroviejo syndrome tipe II ). A case report].
    Author: Pascual-Castroviejo I, Pascual-Pascual SI, Rafia S, Viaño J.
    Journal: Rev Neurol; ; 35(11):1034-6. PubMed ID: 12497310.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To present a case with several cutaneous hemangiomas associated with intracranial hemangiomas and possibly with an intrahepatic hemangioma. CASE REPORT: A boy, 17 months old, showing several cutaneous hemangiomas and epileptic seizures resisting to antiepileptic medication, who also presented psychomotor retardation. The study by angiographic magnetic resonance (AMR ) revealed the presence of three small intracranial angiomas and possibly a hepatic hemangioma. The seizures were controlled with antiepileptic medication. CONCLUSION: This case shows the association of the cutaneous hemangiomas and the subjacent vascular alterations also hemangiomas in this patient which are included in the most frequent neurocutaneous disease, which is known as Pascual Castroviejo syndrome.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]