Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
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Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome is a rare disorder that consists mainly of abnormal blood vessels affecting the skin or internal organs – usually the gastrointestinal tract.[1] The disease is characterized by the presence of fluid-filled blisters (blebs) as visible, circumscribed, chronic lesions (nevi).
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Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome | |
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Other names | BRBNS, or Blue rubber bleb syndrome, or Blue rubber-bleb nevus or Bean syndrome |
The cutaneous vascular malformations of blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome | |
Specialty | Oncology |
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BRBNS is caused by somatic mutations in the TEK (TIE2) gene.[2] It was described by William Bennett Bean in 1958.[3]