Sunday, March 31, 2019

Wyburn Mason syndrome

large tortuous arteries and veins
racemose retina

affects one eye
retinal , facial, oral and intracranial AVM
intracranial avm usually is ipsilateral optic nerve temporal lobe and middle and posterior fossae
nonhereditary
believed to derive from seventh week mesoderm
retinal AVM are often stable but 25 percent of time are not and cause complications
orbital AVM correlate with proptosis and with intracranial avm's
oral maxillofacial AVM can result in feared bleeding especially after dental extraction or from nose without warning or provocation

Signs and symptoms include

HA
cephalic bruit
HH and HP

ddx:
Sturge Weber--
von Hippel Lindau

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