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Multifocal arteriovenous malformations and facial nevus without leptomeningeal angioma: a variant form of Sturge–Weber syndrome? A case report and review of the literatures

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Bae, IS., Yi, HJ. & Lee, Y.J. Multifocal arteriovenous malformations and facial nevus without leptomeningeal angioma: a variant form of Sturge–Weber syndrome? A case report and review of the literatures. Childs Nerv Syst 29, 311–315 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1931-5

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