Sturge-Weber Syndrome: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

Sturge-Weber syndrome, encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis, encephalofacial angiomatosis, Sturge-Weber-Dimitri syndrome, SWS, neurocutaneous disorder, angiomas, leptomeningeal angiomas, port-wine stain, PWS, cutaneous angioma

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Masanori Takeoka, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Consulting Staff, Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital Boston
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James J Riviello Jr, MD, George Peterkin Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology, Peter Kellaway Section of Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief of Neurophysiology, Director of the Epilepsy and Neurophysiology Program, Texas Children's Hospital
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