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Mild as well as severe vascular anomalies have been described in ancient documents by authors such as Hippocrates [1], Ambrose Pare [2], Galen [3], and others.
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Villavicencio, J.L. (2017). Congenital Vascular Malformations: An Historical Account. In: Kim, YW., Lee, BB., Yakes, W., Do, YS. (eds) Congenital Vascular Malformations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46709-1_1
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