Abstract
In this study,we aimed to evaluate the clinical and neuroimaging features in children with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). Eleven patients with SWS were included in this study. Chart analysis, clinical evaluation, neurological and ophthalmological examinations, electroencephalographic and neuroimaging studies were evaluated retrospectively. The study approved by the Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine Ethics committee (07.08.2012/486). The mean age was 61.82 ± 39.73 months (range from 16 to 132 months ). The most common symptoms were convulsion and facial angioma. Port-wine stains was observed in all cases. Epilepsy, hemiparesis, psychomotor retardation and glaucoma were the most common issues. Cortical calcifications on cranial tomography (CT) scan was present in 6 cases. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of cranial, there were cerebral atropy in 9 cases, leptomeningeal angioma in 7 cases, diploic proimence in 5 cases, enlargement of the choroid plexus in 5 cases, choroid plexus cyst in 3 cases and venous anomalies in 3 cases. Port-wine stains, epilepsy, hemiparesis, psychomotor retardation, glaucoma, cortical calcifications on CT, cerebral atrophy and leptomeningeal angiomatosis on MRI were the most frequent features of patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome in this series.
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