This 17-year-old boy was the only child born to non-consanguineous parents. His father and grandfather showed diffuse angiomatosis. He was conceived naturally. His fetal ultrasound scan showed IUGR. At birth, a diffuse capillary malformation involving the trunk and limbs was recorded. At age 3 months, he was noted to have left asymmetric overgrowth. During his follow-up visits, cardiac and abdominal ultrasound scans were repeatedly normal. Early developmental milestones were delayed, and at age 7 months, a brain MRI scan revealed focal hemimegalencephaly with right perisylvian polymicrogyria. From age 5 years, he started to manifest episodes of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, which proved to be refractory to antiepileptic therapy. He was severely cognitively impaired and developed an attention deficit disorder. On physical examination, at age 13 years and 8/12 months, his weight was 41.5 kg (10th–25th percentile), height 154.2 cm (10th–25th percentile), and head circumference 50.2 cm (2 SD < 3rd percentile). He had left asymmetric overgrowth, involving the face, trunk, and limbs (mainly the legs) with diffusely soft and thick irregularly marbled skin and prominent capillaries and veins on the trunk, abdomen, and limbs. His 2nd and 3rd left toes were significantly larger than the contralateral and showed proximal cutaneous syndactyly. Besides the increased growth, he had dysmorphic features including malar hypoplasia, long philtrum and high palate, and S-shaped scoliosis. Skin biopsies from the affected (and unaffected contralateral) skin regions were obtained.
A 29-year-old female patient had complained of discomfort and mild pain in the left shoulder since she was 18-year-old. After childbirth, she had severe ongoing pain and contracture of the shoulder. She had no significant prior medical or surgical history. Axial fat-saturated T2-weighted MRI revealed high signal intensity and sagittal T1-weighted MRI revealed low signal intensity within the muscle of the shoulder. (Fig. c, d). Under clinical diagnosis of VM, the lesion was resected.