Venous malformations of the head and neck are congenital lesions that grow steadily without spontaneous regression. We describe the management of a 47-year-old woman with an extensive subcutaneous venous malformation of bilateral submandibular regions and the entire tongue, refractory to multiple surgical excisions and percutaneous sclerotherapy sessions. The tumour lacked prominent feeding art...

OBJECTIVES To develop clinical criteria that permit clinical distinction between inherited glomuvenous malformation (GVM), known as glomangioma, and inherited cutaneomucosal venous malformation and to test these criteria on sporadic lesions. DESIGN Clinical data were compiled for 1685 patients with inherited or sporadic cutaneous venous anomalies. Based on a cohort of patients with a mutation...

Time-resolved, contrast-enhanced 3D MR angiography combined with parallel imaging at 3T was applied to an intracranial arteriovenous malformation, a dural arteriovenous fistula, and an extracranial facial arteriovenous malformation. The temporal resolution was one image every 1.5 seconds. Arterial feeders were depicted in all three cases. Early venous drainage was observed in the intracerebral ...

BACKGROUND Galectin-3 (Gal-3) plays a role in the mechanisms underlying ocular venous malformation. We conducted this study to investigate the effect of pingyangmycin pretreatment on the Gal-3 expressions and biological behavior of ocular venous malformation. METHODS Tissue samples were collected from 136 patients with ocular venous malformation. Patients were randomly divided into pingyangmy...

d evelopmental venous anomaly is a widely used synonym for venous angioma or cerebral venous malformation [1]. DVAs are the most frequently encountered cerebral vascular malformation and are frequently reported as incidental findings in computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies. Radiological and autopsy series have demonstrated that DVAs occur in 2.5 to 3% of the general popula...

Correspondence: BB Lee Department of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Email [email protected] Abstract: Venous malformation is a congenital vascular malformation resulting from defective development during various stages of embryogenesis and selectively affecting the venous system. Depending on the embryologic stage when the developmental arrest occurred, the clinica...

A 37-year-old man was seen for recurrent pulmonary embolism in 2007. He had previously experienced pulmonary embolism in 2001 and 2006. As a result, he developed significant pulmonary hypertension that manifested as shortness of breath on exertion. On physical examination, a large, rubbery, nonpulsatile mass of the right axilla (Figure 1) was noted. He was treated with therapeutic oral anticoag...