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. 1996 Jun;72(848):347–348. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.72.848.347

Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome.

O M Jolobe 1
PMCID: PMC2398477  PMID: 8758012

Abstract

The Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, typically characterised by the triad of cutaneous haemangioma, venous varicosities, and limb hypertrophy, may also have a formes frustes presentation, with absence of the cutaneous naevus. A case is reported in a 75-year-old woman with a presumptive diagnosis of renovascular hypertension.

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