Acral arteriovenous tumor developed within a nevus flammeus in a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome

Am J Dermatopathol. 2003 Aug;25(4):341-5. doi: 10.1097/00000372-200308000-00011.

Abstract

The Sturge-Weber syndrome consists of a large facial nevus flammeus in the distribution of the ophthalmologic division of the trigeminal nerve accompanied by ipsilateral leptomeningeal angiomatosis. Usually, when angiomatous nodules develop in a nevus flammeus of a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome they are pyogenic granulomas. We describe an acral arteriovenous tumor developed within the nevus flammeus of a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome. To our knowledge, acral arteriovenous tumor has not been previously described in the cutaneous vascular malformation of patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome. The development of acral arteriovenous tumor within the vascular malformation of a nevus flammeus in this patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome probably results from a vascular proliferation secondary to underlying arteriovenous shunts.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Facial Neoplasms / complications*
  • Facial Neoplasms / pathology
  • Forehead / pathology
  • Hemangioma / complications*
  • Hemangioma / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Port-Wine Stain / complications*
  • Port-Wine Stain / pathology
  • Skin Neoplasms / complications*
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology
  • Sturge-Weber Syndrome / complications*
  • Sturge-Weber Syndrome / pathology