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T E Johnson1, A M Nasr, R M Nalbandian, J Cappelen-Smith.
Abstract
Maffucci's syndrome is a rare, congenital disease of unknown cause characterized by the development of multiple enchondromas and soft-tissue hemangiomas. We treated a 34-year-old man with Maffucci's syndrome, bilateral proptosis secondary to multiple intraorbital hemangiomas, corneal exposure secondary to a left facial nerve palsy, and multiple intra-abdominal tumors. The skeletal manifestations were not clinically apparent and were only discovered after a careful radiologic survey. Simultaneous bilateral orbital cavernous hemangiomas should alert the physician to the possibility of Maffucci's syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2198811 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)76984-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Ophthalmol ISSN: 0002-9394 Impact factor: 5.258