A new case of Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber (KTW) syndrome: Evidence of autosomal dominant inheritance

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Most cases of KTW syndrome are sporadic. However, in a few, other family members have some clinical manifestations of the syndrome, and an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance has been suggested. In this paper we present a family with an affected child who has large skin hemangiomata, overgrowth of the right leg, and severe heart defects. Her mother has a large capillary hemangioma on the left side of back and...

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