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Pseudo‐Kaposi sarcoma induced by minor trauma in a patient with Klippel–Trenaunay–Weber syndrome
Author(s) -
DELRÍO E.,
AGUILAR A.,
AMBROJO P.,
VÉLEZ A.,
SÁNCHEZ YUS E.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1993.tb00999.x
Subject(s) - klippel trenaunay syndrome , klippel trenaunay weber syndrome , medicine , sarcoma , varicose veins , muscle hypertrophy , vein , radiology , surgery , pathology , soft tissue , cardiology
Summary Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are vascular anomalies containing a communication between an artery and a vein without an intervening capillary bed. 1 In 1990, Klippel and Trenaunay reported a patient with limb overgrowth, cutaneous angiomata and varicose veins. 2 In 1918, Parkes Weber mentioned the additional feature of AVM terming the condition‘hemangiectatic hypertrophy. 3 Most authors now consider both the Klippel Trenaunay syndrome and the syndrome of multiple congenital arteriovenous fistulae to be two forms of Parkes Weber's hemangiectatic hypertrophy. 4 Clinical and histological‘Kaposi sarcoma'‐like lesions in the Klippel–Trenauny–Weber syndrome are well documented. 5,6 We report an additional case appearing after minor trauma.