clinical features
Last reviewed 01/2018
Sturge-Weber syndrome is characterised by:
- a capillary naevus or port wine stain which is unilateral and usually over the forehead and eyelid conforming to the 1st or the 1st and 2nd divisions of the trigeminal nerve
- epilepsy occurs in 90%, usually presenting in infancy
- developmental delay - particularly of speech - and behavioural disorders occur in 50%
- hemiparesis and homonymous hemianopia occur in 30%
- there may be glaucoma in the affected eye
mental retardation (term that has been replaced by intellectual developmental disorder)