Tuberous Sclerosis (Bourneville's Disease)

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Identifier 99_Tuberous Sclerosis (Bourneville's Disease)
Title Tuberous Sclerosis (Bourneville's Disease)
Creator David G. Cogan, MD (1908-1993)
Contributors David D. Donaldson
Affiliation (DGC) Former Director of Ophthalmology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Subject Retina; Tuberous Sclerosis; Epilepsy; Intellectual Disability; Neurocutaneous Syndromes; Optic Disc; Fundus Oculi
Description Presenting Symptom: Seizure; Optic nerve head neoplastic lesion. Pathology: Elevated multinodular lesion. Clinical: This entity is one of the phacomatoses characterized in its complete form by the triad of epilepsy, adenoma sebaceum, and mental deficiency. The brain and eye frequently show nodular masses which, with the ophthalmoscope, present as "mulberry" masses on the disc and in the superficial retina. The patient was a 27-year old female whose mother and brother had seizures and were diagnosed as having tuberous sclerosis. The patient herself has had seizures and typical lesions at the nerve head of mulberry nodules. Disease/ Diagnosis: Bourneville Disease
Date 1971
Language eng
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Relation is Part of Ocular Fundus Slides
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: David G. Cogan Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/Cogan/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2008. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s69z96kg
Setname ehsl_novel_dgc
ID 177360
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69z96kg
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