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Current Practice: Rationale for Screening Children with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia for Brain Vascular Malformations

Lauren A. Beslow, Andrew J. White, Timo Krings, Adrienne M. Hammill, Shih Shan Lang, Atsuko Baba, Marianne S. Clancy, Scott E. Olitsky and Steven W. Hetts
American Journal of Neuroradiology September 2024, 45 (9) 1177-1184; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8195
Lauren A. Beslow
aFrom the Division of Neurology (L.A.B.), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
bDepartments of Neurology and Pediatrics (L.A.B.), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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cDepartment of Pediatrics (A.J.W.), St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Timo Krings
dDivision of Neuroradiology (T.K.), Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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eCancer and Blood Diseases Institute (A.M.H.), Division of Hematology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
fDivision of Pediatrics (A.M.H.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Shih Shan Lang
gDivision of Neurosurgery (S.S.L.), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
hDepartment of Neurosurgery (S.S.L.), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Atsuko Baba
iDepartment of Anesthesia (A.B.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Marianne S. Clancy
jCure HHT (M.S.C., S.E.O.), Monkton, Maryland.
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Scott E. Olitsky
jCure HHT (M.S.C., S.E.O.), Monkton, Maryland.
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Steven W. Hetts
kDepartments of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and Neurological Surgery and Division of Neuroendovascular Surgery (S.W.H.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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