Posttraumatic port-wine stain in a 4-year-old girl: Fegeler syndrome.
A4-year-old girl presented with an acquired port-wine stain in the distribution of the first branch of the trigeminal nerve. The lesion appeared after a head injury and slowly enlarged over the next 2 years. Including our patient, 25 instances of acquired port-wine stains have been reported in children. Ten (40%) of these were trauma related. The possible etiopathogenesis of acquired posttraumatic port-wine stains is discussed.
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Unit of Dermatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padua, Italy. dermatologia@pediatria.unipd.it
Belloni Fortina
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D002648:Child; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019339:Port-Wine Stain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome