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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
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Tuberous Sclerosis





- Discussion:
    - is classically characterized by a clinical triad of epileptic seizures,
          mental retardation and skin lesions which have been considered
          hamartomas of the skin and brain;
    - adenoma sebaceum is the most familiar cutaneous stigma;
    - high percentage of pts (66%) have radiographic findings in hand;




Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.