Description

The Wyburn Mason Syndrome involves arteriovenous malformations (AVM) in retinal and other blood vessels of the head and neck.


 

Sites for AVM – usually unilateral:

(1) retina (Type III AVM)

(2) mandible

(3) maxilla

(4) intracranial (midbrain, other)

(5) retro-bulbar

(6) facial angiomas

 

Ocular findings:

(1) poor vision in affected eye

(2) proptosis (secondary to AVM in retrobulbar soft tissue

(3) homonymous hemianopia (if optic tract involved)

 

Other findings:

(1) neurologic signs (pyramidal, other), depending on CNS involvement

 


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