12-10-2016, 08:10 AM
A 4-year-old boy with a history of seizures and mental retardation comes to the physician for follow-up. His history is also significant for infantile spasms during the first year of life with abnormal EEG. An MRI of the brain is performed and the patient is noted to have multiple hamartomas in the cortical structures of the brain. A periventricular mass is also noted. Physical examination of the patient reveals hypomelanotic, elliptic macules distributed throughout the trunk and angiofibromas on malar regions of the face (adenoma sebaceum). This patient is most at risk for which of the following conditions?
A Cardiac rhabdomyomas
B Cerebellar hemangioblastoma
C Leptomeningeal angiomatosis
D Nevus flammeus
E Retinal hemangioblastoma
A Cardiac rhabdomyomas
B Cerebellar hemangioblastoma
C Leptomeningeal angiomatosis
D Nevus flammeus
E Retinal hemangioblastoma