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Congenital Vascular Bone Syndrome: Limb Length Discrepancy

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Congenital vascular malformation (CVM) affecting lower extremity (LE) can cause bone and/or joint abnormality which can cause joint pain, early development of osteoarthritis, joint contracture, bone deformity, or limb length discrepancy (LLD) particularly in patients of growing age. Congenital vascular bone syndrome (CVBS) is defined as LLD due to an abnormal bone growth in patients with CVM [1].

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  1. Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine, Vascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

    Young-Wook Kim MD, PhD

  2. Vascular Malformation Center, “Stefan Belov” Istituto Clinico Humanitas “Mater Domini”, Castellanza (Varese), Italy

    Raul Mattassi 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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Kim, YW., Mattassi, R. (2017). Congenital Vascular Bone Syndrome: Limb Length Discrepancy. 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_45

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