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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2018 Feb;51(1):147–158. doi: 10.1016/j.otc.2017.09.002

Table 2.

ISSVA Vascular Anomalies classification scheme from 2015.

Data from: International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies

Capillary Malformations (CM)

Cutaneous and/or mucosal CM (port wine stain) GNAQ
 CM with bone and/or soft tissue hyperplasia
 CM with CNS and/or eye anomalies (Sturge-Weber) GNAQ
 CM of CM-AVM RASA1
Telangiectasia
 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
 HHT1 ENG
 HHT2 ACVRL1
 HHT3
 Others
Cutis marmorata telangiectatica congentia (CMTC)
Nevus simplex/Salmon patch

Lymphatic Malformations (LM)

 Primary lymphedema
 Nonne-Milroy syndrome FLT4/VEGRFR3
 Primary hereditary lymphedema VEGFC
 Primary hereditary lymphedema GJC2/Connexin 47
 Lymphedema-distichiasis FOXC2
 Hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia SOX18
 Primary lymphedema with mylodysplasia GATA2
 Primary generalized lymphatic anomaly CCBE1
 Microcephaly with/without chorioretinopathy KIF11
 Lymphedema or mental retardation syndrome
 Lymphedema-choanal atresia PTEN14

Venous Malformations (VM)

 Common VM TIE2 somatic
 Familial VM cutaneo-mucosal (VMCM) TIE2
 Blue rubber bleb nevus (Bean) syndrome VM
 Glomuvenous malformation (VM with glomus cells) Glomulin
 Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM)
  CCM1 KRIT1
  CCM2 Malcavernin
  CCM3 PDCD10

Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM)

 Sporadic in HHT
  HHT1 ENG
  HHT2 ACVRL1
  JPHT (juvenile polyposis hem. telangiect.) SMADA4
 CM-AVM RASA1

Arteriovenous Fistulas (AVF)

Vascular Malformations Associated with other Anomalies

Klippel- Trenaunay syndrome
Parkes Weber syndrome RASA1
Servelle-Martorell syndrome
Sturge-Weber syndrome GNAQ
Limb CM + congenital non-progressive limb overgrowth
Maffucci syndrome
Macrocephaly – CM (M-CM or MCAP) PIK3CA
Microcephaly – CM (MICCAP) STAMBP
CLOVES syndrome PIK3CA
Proteus syndrome AKT1
Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome PTEN

Provisionally Unclassified Vascular Anomalies

Verrucous hemangioma
Multifocal lymphangioendotheliomatosis with thrombocytopenia/cutaneovisceral angiomatosis with thrombocytopenia (MLT/CAT)
Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA)
PTEN (type) hamartoma of soft tissue/“angiomatosis” of soft tissue PTEN