Hemangiomas are associated with all of the following, except:
Correct Answer: Cowden's syndrome
Description: Hemangiomas are associated with the following syndromes:
Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome (autosomal dominant inheritance, multiple telangiectasias, occasional GI tract involvement, occasional CNS involvement).
Sturge-Weber-Dimitri syndrome (noninherited and nonfamilial, port-wine stain, leptomeningeal angiomas).
Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (thrombocytopenic purpura associated with hemangioma, consumptive coagulopathy, microangiopathic hemolysis, intralesional fibrinolysis).
Maffucci syndrome (hemangiomas of the mucous membranes, dyschondroplasia).
Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (genetic transmission variable, hemangiomas of the cerebellum or the retina, cysts of the viscera).
Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome (port-wine stain, angiomatosis of the extremities).
Ref: Shafer's textbook of oral pathology 7th edition page 145
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