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Variant of sturge-weber syndrome

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Annals of Ophthalmology

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A case of Sturge-Weber syndrome in a 27-year-old man involved only the skin and left eye, without any features suggestive of central nervous system involvement. Additionally, this patient had ciliary body angioma and orbital angioma in the affected eye, a finding not known to have been previously reported in the literature.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Government Medical College Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh, India

    Sudesh K. Arya MD, S. P. Dhir MS, FRCOph,  Ram Lal Sharma MS & V. P. Munjal MS

  2. Department of Radiology, Government Medical College Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarth, India

    Suman Kochhan MD

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Arya, S.K., Kochhan, S., Dhir, S.P. et al. Variant of sturge-weber syndrome. Ann Ophthalmol 33, 337–339 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12009-001-0052-7

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