subependymal giant cell astrocytomas - doc_vic

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SEGA is pathognomonic of tuberous sclerosis.---I just heared of this, never encountered in my txt. anyone knows pls?

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From step1 review

Tuberous sclerosis

Autosomal dominant; mental retardation, skin lesions, hamartomas, and benign tumors; skin lesions consist of adenoma sebaceum and periungual fibromas; hamartomatous proliferations of astrocytes located in subependymal portions of the brain give apperance of "candlestick drippings" within the ventricles; angiomyolipomas (hamartomas) occur in kidney and rhabdomyomas (neoplasm) in the heart

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Thanks okt3!

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autosomal dominant
mental retardatn and seizures presentation usually
skin leisoins...angiofibromas,hypopigmented skin leisions...k/as ash leaf...or shagreen patche
hamartomas of brain and kidney
..brain astrocyte proliferation
....kidney...angiomyolipomas
rhabdomyomas in heart