Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
Tuberous sclerosis is a genetic disorder that affects various parts of the body to varying degrees of severity.
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Tuberous sclerosis consists of a complex of signs and symptoms with multiple, usually benign, tumors that occur throughout the body and in numerous organs, including the skin, eye, brain, kidneys and heart.
Tuberous sclerosis
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Tuberous sclerosis is a group of two genetic disorders that affect the skin, brain/nervous system, kidneys, and heart, and cause tumors to grow.
Tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous sclerosis (TSC), also called Bourneville's disease, is a rare genetic disorder that causes noncancerous (benign) tumors to grow in many parts of the body, such as the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, lungs, and skin.
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What is tuberous sclerosis?
Tuberous sclerosis is a disease that causes growths in the skin, brain, kidneys, eyes, heart or lungs. These growths are usually benign (non-cancerous).
What is tuberous sclerosis complex?
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous noncancerous (benign) tumors in many parts of the body.
Tuberous sclerosis is a group of two genetic disorders that affect the skin, brain/nervous system, kidneys, and heart, and cause tumors to grow. The diseases are named after a tuber- or root-shaped growth in the brain.
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Tuberous sclerosis, also known as tuberous sclerosis complex, is a rare genetic condition that causes benign (non-cancerous) tumours to develop in different parts of the body. Tumours can develop on the skin and in the: ...
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What is tuberous sclerosis complex?
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a hereditary condition associated with changes in the skin, brain, kidney, and heart.
Tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous sclerosis is a genetic condition caused by a change in a gene. The symptoms vary from one person to another, with some people showing very few symptoms and others more severely affected.
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Growths, called tubers, are often found growing inside of the brain and retinal area of the eye.
Tuberous sclerosis. In this condition, noncancerous (benign) tumors grow in the brain.
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Tuberous sclerosis (TS): Consisting of three characteristic components - epilepsy, mental retardation and fleshy nodules beneath the skin - tuberous sclerosis occurs in one in 9,000 to one in 70,000 newborns.
Tuberous Sclerosis: Also known as Bourneville's Disease, this is a multi-system inherited condition that can affect the brain, eyes, heart, lungs, kidneys, and other organs.
tuberous sclerosis A genetic disorder in which benign (noncancerous) tumors form in the kidneys, brain, eyes, heart, lungs and skin. This disease can cause seizures, mental disabilities and different types of skin lesions.
Tuberous sclerosis is an autosomal dominant condition. Autosomal means that both males and females are equally affected and dominant means that only one copy of the gene is necessary to have the disorder.
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: Tuberous sclerosis complex and subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. In: Kleihues P, Cavenee WK, eds.: Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Nervous System. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2000, pp 227-30.
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"Sacrococcygeal chordomas in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex show somatic loss of TSC1 or TSC2". Genes Chromosomes Cancer 41 (1): 80-5. doi:10.1002/gcc.20052. PMID 15236319.
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a solid intrarenal mass characteristically seen in children with tuberous sclerosis.
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Individuals with tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis (type 1 and 2), familial polyposis, and von Hippel-Lindau disease have a higher incidence of brain tumors.
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Primary tumors are sometimes associated with specific genetic diseases such as tuberous sclerosis or neurofibromatosis.
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Autism is linked to certain medical conditions, including fragile X syndrome, untreated phenylketonuria (PKU), tuberous sclerosis, and congenital rubella syndrome. Fetal exposure to toxins, such as hazardous chemicals, may play a role in autism.
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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, can also occur in women who have a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Women who have TSC often have a milder form of LAM.
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For example, people with the hereditary diseases called neurofibromatosis type 1, Turcot syndrome, Li-Fraumeni cancer syndrome, and tuberous sclerosis have a higher than average risk of developing a glioma.
Other lesions showing connective tissue proliferation are fibrous papule of the nose, periungual fibromas associated with tuberous sclerosis and pearly papules of the penis.
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Astrocytomas are the most common type of tumor arising from supporting cells within the nervous system (glioma). Individuals with the nervous system diseases neurofibromatosis and tuberous sclerosis are at higher risk for developing low grade ...
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