- Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomatosis Syndromes
- Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome - Proteus syndrome - Klippel-Trenauney Sydrome - Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
- Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome: facts
- Multiple subcutaneous as well as GI tract small tumors - Vascular GI lesions will commonly bleed - Can involve entire GI tract but most commonly small bowel - Associated with increased incidence of medulloblastoma, CLL, RCC and squammous cell carcinoma
- Proteus Syndrome: facts
- Hemihypertrophy, partial gigantism - Vascular tumors and AVMs - Lipomas and fatty tumor proliferation - splenomegaly
- Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome: Facts
- Three key findings –Port wine stain –Abnormal vascular structures –Osseous and soft tissue hypertrophy
- Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome: Facts
- Patients have GI tract hemangiomas including bowel involvement with calcifications
- Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome: facts
- Consumptive thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy - Can lead to DIC - May have large hepatic or splenic hemangioma - Association with angiosarcoma and AVMs
- Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations: Facts
- Congenital in origin - 60-90% of patients have hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (aka Rendu- Osler-Weber syndrome)
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