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Rendu-Osler-Weber Disease: clinical and surgical treatment

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (Rendu-Osler-Weber disease) is a rare disease with and incidence of 1-2/100000, affecting blood vessels of the skin, mucous membrane, lungs and gastrointestinal tract. It is recognized as a classic triad of teleangiectasia in face, hands and cavity; recurrent epistaxe and family occurrence. We reported three patients with Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and discussed about clinical manifestations and treatment.

hereditary haemorrhagic teleangiectasia; Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome; epistaxe


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