Rhodoid nevus syndrome: why is this name preferable to «capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation»?

Abstract

Until today, the term capillary malformation (CM) designates many quite different skin disorders.¹ One of them – called capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation (CM-AVM)² – represents an autosomal dominant trait caused by mutations in RASA1.³ We here describe the characteristic CMs of this trait in a child whithout any AVM, and provide arguments why the term CM-AVM should be replaced by "rhodoid nevus syndrome".

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