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Venous Malformation of the Head and Neck and Extremities

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Venous malformation [VM] presents with a wide spectrum of involvement, ranging from focal cyst-like, blood-filled lesions with minimal communication with the conducting veins to diffuse lesions involving all of the venous structures in multiple planes of an involved anatomic area. The genetic basis is fairly well understood. Clinical problems include pain, deformity, bleeding, and consumption coagulopathy. VMs are hyperintense on T2-weighted MRI sequences.

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  1. Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Patricia E. Burrows MD

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  1. Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Wook Kim

  2. Professor of Surgery and Director, Center for the Lymphedema and Vascular Malformations, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Byung-Boong Lee

  3. Swedish Medical Center, Vascular malformation Center, Englewood, Colorado, USA

    Wayne F. Yakes

  4. Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young-Soo Do

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Burrows, P.E. (2017). Venous Malformation of the Head and Neck and Extremities. In: Kim, YW., Lee, BB., Yakes, W., Do, YS. (eds) Congenital Vascular Malformations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46709-1_14

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