PHACE Syndrome is the uncommon association between large infantile hemangiomas, usually of the face, and birth defects of the brain, heart, eyes, skin and/or arteries.

 

It is an acronym that stands for the medical names of the parts of the body it often impacts:

 

• P – Posterior fossa abnormalities and other structural brain abnormalities

• H – Hemangioma(s) of the cervical facial region

• A – Arterial cerebrovascular anomalies

• C – Cardiac defects, aortic coarctation and other aortic abnormalities

• E – Eye anomalies

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Additionally, new discoveries lead doctors to believe LUMBAR Syndrome is also  related.