Congenital Vascular Malformations: Introduction

Congenital vascular malformations in scintigraphic evaluation

BACKGROUND Congenital vascular malformations are tumour-like, non-neoplastic lesions caused by disorders of vascular tissue morphogenesis. They are characterised by a normal cell replacement cycle throughout all growth phases and do not undergo spontaneous involution. Here we present a scintigraphic image of familial congenital vascular malformations in two sisters. MATERIAL/METHODS A 17-year...

Congenital intracranial vascular malformations in children.

1 a congenital internal carotid/internal jugular fistula. Based on onset of symptoms the patients ranged in age from 3 months to 16 years with an average age of 74 years; however, 5 patients had their first clinical manifestation before 6 years of age. Unfortunately, definitive diagnosis could not be made until an average of 15i years. The most important clinical manifestations were focal or ge...

Skin and Soft Tissue Injuries in Congenital Vascular Malformations

Congenital Malformations

Some are born monsters, some achieve monstrosity; others have monsters thrust upon them! I put myself in the last category. When I first went to work at Southmead Hospital some twelve years ago I was no more or less interested in monsters and congenital malformations than in a great many other things. I soon found however, that this problem was indeed thrust upon me. Monsters and malformations ...

Congenital Malformations

In this country today if a child survives the first 4 weeks after birth he has a very good chance of 70 years of life, but to attain this he still has to negotiate the hazardous perinatal period. The perinatal mortality survey for England, Scotland and Wales showed that the highest single cause of first week deaths is congenital malformation, constituting nearly 25 per cent of deaths in March 1...