Sturge-Weber syndrome
Description
What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification…
History
1879 – Sturge demonstrated before the Clinical Society of London a patient with a right facial naevus flammeus and buphthalmos
1963 – Scottish ophthalmic surgeon, Sir Stephen James Hamilton Miller (1915–1996) reviewed the original ophthalmic report by Edward Nettleship (1845-1913) on Sturges patients from 1879
Ophthalmoscope – Right disc much redder than left. Choroid. – The general colour is very markedly darker and at the same time redder in the right than the left eye. The difference is not what we should expect if it were due to the pigment being more abundant in one eye than the other; it is suggestive of venous or venous and capillary hypertrophy like that on the skin
Associated Persons
- Rudolf Schirmer (1831-1896)
- William Allen Sturge (1850-1919)
- Siegfried Kalischer
- William Allen Sturge (1850-1919)
- Edward Nettleship (1845-1913)
- Sir Stephen James Hamilton Miller (1915–1996)
Alternative names
- Sturge-Kalischer Disease (Weber, 1946)
- Encephalofacial angiomatosis
- Weber-Dimitri disease (angioma of brain revealed by radiography)
References
Historical references
- Schirmer S. Ein Fall von Telangiektasia. Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie. 1860; 7: 119-121.
- Sturge WA. A case of partial epilepsy, apparently due to a lesion of one of the vasomotor centres of the brain. Transactions of the Clinical Society of London. 1879; 12: 162.
- Kalischer S. Ein Fall von Telangiektasie (Angiom) des Gesichts und der weichen Hirnhäute. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten. 1901, 34: 171-180.
- Weber FP. Right-sided hemi-hypotrophy resulting from right-sided congenital spastic hemiplegia, with a morbid condition of the left side of the brain, revealed by radiograms. J Neurol Psychopathol. 1922; 3(10): 134-139.
- Dimitri V. Tumor cerebral congenito (angioma cavernosum). Rev Ass Med Argent 1923;36:63.
- Parkes Weber F. The Sturge-Kalischer Disease. In: Rare diseases and some debatable subjects. London: Staples, 1946: 9–11.
Eponymous term review
- Krabbe KH. Facial and meningeal angiomatosis associated with calcification of the brain cortex. A clinical and an anatomopathologic contribution. Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1934; 32: 737–755.
- Miller SJH. Symposium: The Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Ophthalmic Aspects of the Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 1963;56(5):419-421
- Comi AM, Hunt P, Vawter MP, Pardo CA, Becker KG, Pevsner J. Increased fibronectin expression in sturge-weber syndrome fibroblasts and brain tissue. Pediatr Res. 2003 May;53(5):762-9.
- Thomas-Sohl KA, Vaslow DF, Maria BL. Sturge-Weber syndrome: a review. Pediatr Neurol. 2004 May;30(5):303-10.
- Pearce JM. Sturge-Weber syndrome (encephalotrigeminal or leptomeningeal angiomatosis). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2006 Nov;77(11):1291-2.
- Thomas-Sohl KA, Vaslow DF, Maria BL. Sturge-Weber syndrome: a review. Pediatr Neurol. 2004 May;30(5):303-10.
- Comi AM. Sturge-Weber syndrome. Handb Clin Neurol. 2015;132:157-68.
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