Cortical Tubers Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Tuberous Sclerosis

KEYWORDS: Cortical tuber; Epilepsy; Focal cortical dysplasia; Hippocampal sclerosis; Tuberous sclerosis [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The multiple cortical tubers cause multiple or wide epileptic networks in these cases. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Early appearance of cortical tubers on cerebral ultrasound in newborn infants is very rare. Mostly TSC is diagnosed on MRI and not by cerebral ultrasound. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma

CONCLUSION: This is the first description of cortical tubers harboring SEGA tissue. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] analysis of cortical tubers and perituberal cortex. [springermedizin.de]

GS expression and mTOR pathway activation were also documented in cortical tubers. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Rhabdomyoma of the Myocardium

tubers Hypomelanotic maculae No Negative Multiple thabdomyomas Mental retardation Subependymal nodule 15 Heart murmur West syndrome Cortical tubers Hypomelanotic maculae [bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com]

A 7 year old male with a history of a seizure disorder and developmental delay is found to have cortical tubers on brain magnetic resonance imaging. [healio.com]

The definitive diagnosis was confirmed at autopsy, which showed multiple macroscopic and microscopic rhabdomyomas in the myocardium, associated with multifocal cortical tubers [circ.ahajournals.org]

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Fibrillary Astrocytoma

We present the clinical, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings of a fibrillary astrocytoma originating from a cortical tuber in a 4-year-old female with [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Mizuguchi M, Takashima S, Yamanouchi H, Nakazato Y, Mitani H, Hino O: Novel cerebral lesions in the Eker rat model of tuberous sclerosis: Cortical tuber and anaplastic ganglioglioma [karger.com]

Although giant cell astrocytoma may develop from these subependymal nodules, tumor formation is very rare in the cortical nodules. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Angiomyolipoma

[…] sclerosis include facial angiofibromas, cortical tubers, subependmal nodules, giant cell astrocytomas, cardiac rhabdomyomas, lymphagniomyomatosis, and renal angiomyolipomas [appliedradiology.com]

MRI revealed multiple T2 hyperintense cortical tubers (Figure 3B). [oatext.com]

The classic triad of tuberous sclerosis consists of adenoma sebaceum, seizures, and mental retardation, but is only seen in one-third of patients.Major features of tuberous [appliedradiology.com]

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Third Trimester Pregnancy

Cortical tuber count: a biomarker indicating neurologic severity of tuberous sclerosis complex. J Child Neurol. 1997;12:85-90.CrossrefGoogle Scholar 9. [degruyter.com]

Late onset epilepsy in undiagnosed tuberous sclerosis. Postgrad Med J. 1992;68(806):970-1.Google Scholar 8. [degruyter.com]

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Fibroma

Important diagnostic criteria for TSC include facial angiofibromas, ungual fibromas, retinal hamartomas, and cortical tubers [24]. [wikigenes.org]

Symptoms of the sporadic patient with the 3671del8 mutation are cortical tubers, subependymal nodules, facial angiofibroma, ungual fibroma, renal angiomyolipoma, hypomelanotic [wikigenes.org]

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Subungual Fibroma

Additional Evaluative Tests CT or MRI of the head should be considered for cortical tubers or other clinically occult manifestations of TSC. [thelamfoundation.org]

Usually begins in infancy or early childhood and may precede appearance of skin lesions by years The greater the number of tumours (cortical tubers) in the brain, the greater [dermnetnz.org]

[…] sclerosis are as follows: Brain: Cortical tuber Retina : Phakomas Skin : Angiofibroma Heart : Rhabdomyoma Bone : Sclerotic lesions Lung : Lymphangioma Kidney: Angiomyolipoma [journals.publishmed.com]

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Hamartoma of the Central Nervous System

Cortical tubers Tuberous sclerosis. Cortical lesions (tubers). The lesions are firm, and cortical/white matter demarcation is lost. Compare to adjacent normal cortex. [neuropathology-web.org]

tubers), subependymal nodules, subependymal giant cell astrocytomas -Mass effect symptoms, such as hydrocephalus and papilledema -Seizures or infantile spasms. [pedclerk.bsd.uchicago.edu]

Cortical blindness as severe neuro-ophthalmological manifestation of tuberous sclerosis complex Case Report Abstract Patients with retinal lesions related to tuberous sclerous [egms.de]

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Renal Angiomyolipoma

MRI revealed multiple T2 hyperintense cortical tubers (Figure 3B). [oatext.com]

Other intracranial growths such as subependymal astrocytomas and cortical tubers are evidence of CNS involvement that can interfere with brain function leading to seizures [disorders.eyes.arizona.edu]

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Angiocentric Glioma

Other imaging differential considerations include: focal cortical dysplasia cortical tuber ( forme fruste of tuberous sclerosis ) DNET "bubbly" cortical and subcortical lesion [radiopaedia.org]

[…] dysplasia Cortical tubers Hemimegalencephaly Polymicrogyria Cerebral heterotopias Perivascular oligodendrocyte clustering/hyperplasia Classical hippocampal sclerosis Granule [clinicalgate.com]

These children are at risk of developing subependymal giant cell astrocytomas, cortical tubers, and subependymal nodules. [cancer.gov]

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Ganglioglioma

Their mother has facial angiofibroma, cortical tuber, and seizures during infancy. Ganglioglioma may be a phenotypic expression of TSC1. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Cortical tuber. Trapped cortical neurons in diffuse astrocytoma. Papillary glioneuronal tumor. See also Neuropathology tumours. Pilocytic Astrocytoma. [librepathology.org]

Genotype/phenotype correlation in 325 individuals referred for a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex in the United States. Genet Med. 2007 ;9: 88 – 100. [journals.sagepub.com]

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Medial Sclerosis

The cortical hamartomas are called tubers and are similar to cortical dysplasia. Subependymal nodules are small lesions protruding into the lateral ventricles. [radiologyassistant.nl]

CT of a patient with Tuberous Sclerosis shows multiple cortical and subcortical calcifications. Tuberous Sclerosis - courtesy of the American Journal of Neuroradiology. [radiologyassistant.nl]

Tuberous Sclerosis Axial T2w shows multiple tubers and white matter abnormalities (fig. a: arrows) and subependymal nodules key findings in the brain Cortical hamartomas Subependymal [radiologyassistant.nl]

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Renal Fibroma

Cortical tuber. Subependymal nodule (SEN). Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA). Cardiac rhabdomyoma, single or multiple. [patient.info]

tuber Non-renal hamartoma Subependymal nodule Retinal achromatic patch SGCT(subependymal giant cell tumour) Confetti skin lesions Cardiac rhabdomyomas, single or multiple [academic.oup.com]

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Epilepsy

Intrinsic epileptogenicity of cortical tubers revealed by intracranial EEG monitoring. Neurology 79, 2249–2257 (2012). 24. Uhlmann, E. J. et al. [dx.doi.org]

Wadman and Eleonora Aronica, Gene Expression Analysis of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Cortical Tubers Reveals Increased Expression of Adhesion and Inflammatory Factors, Brain [doi.org]

Mechanisms of epileptogenesis in tuberous sclerosis complex and related malformations of cortical development with abnormal glioneuronal proliferation. [dx.doi.org]

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West Syndrome

The complicated clinical developments from WS with TS multiple cortical tubers related to epileptogenesis in addition to impairment of brain development. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Causes vary from cortical dysplasia, bacterial meningitis, tuberous sclerosis and many more. [sayholalola.com]

Perinatal asphyxia (13), tuberous sclerosis (2), cortical dysplasia (2), encephalitis (1), asphyxia due to aspiration (1), congenital cytomegalovirus infection (1), perinatal [atif.sobiad.com]

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Atypical Autism

Otherwise, no particular distribution of cortical tubers was associated with a diagnosis of autism or atypical autism. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Brain scans were reviewed by a neuroradiologist (unaware of clinical diagnoses), and the number and location of cortical tubers was examined in relation to the liability to [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

tubers) that characterise TS. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Familial Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

tubers). [current-oncology.com]

[…] angiomyolipomas, a hamartoma of the left eye, depigmented skin patches, and magnetic resonance imaging findings of the head characteristic of tsc (subependymal nodules and cortical [current-oncology.com]

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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

The cortical hamartomas are called tubers and are similar to cortical dysplasia. Subependymal nodules are small lesions protruding into the lateral ventricles. [radiologyassistant.nl]

During the intracranial monitoring, it was noted that the seizure onset was localized to several contacts on the grid which were in the immediate region of the cortical tuber [neurosciencereview.eu]

2014 ), cortical dysplasias, and tuberous sclerosis ( Talos et al., 2012 ) suggests that changes in chloride-potassium cotransport contribute to epileptic syndromes beyond [doi.org]

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Status Epilepticus

Initial magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed diffuse edema in the bilateral cerebral cortex, cortical tubers, and subependymal nodules. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] dysplasias Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) II, tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), hemimegalencephaly, hemi‐hemimegalencephaly Ganglioglioma, gangliocytoma, dysembryoplastic [onlinelibrary.wiley.com]

[…] dysplasia Sturge‐Weber syndrome focal cortical dysplasia Rasmussen syndrome Cerebrospinal fluid oligoclonal banding, immunoglobulin G index Tuberous sclerosis Repeated skin [onlinelibrary.wiley.com]

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Familial Cutaneous Collagenoma

tubers) are absent. [clinicaladvisor.com]

Cortical tubers are present in 70% of individuals with TSC, and are a major contributing factor to the presence of seizures, which occur in 80% of individuals with TSC. [clinicaladvisor.com]

Characteristic findings in individuals with TSC include: – Subependymal nodules, cortical tubers, and/or subependymal giant cell tumor, with or without hydrocephalus in the [clinicaladvisor.com]

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Joint Subluxation

Underlying pathologies in these cases may include the following: Encephalitis and/or meningitis Tuberous sclerosis Brain malformations (eg, cortical dysplasias) Hypoxia-ischemia [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] dysplasia, where some nerve fibers in the brain don’t line up right during development in the womb Tuberous sclerosis, where non-cancerous tumors form in many places throughout [webmd.com]

[…] premature birth Brain infections (such as encephalitis, meningitis, or rubella) Seizures that start in infancy, called infantile spasms or West’s syndrome A brain problem called cortical [webmd.com]

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Cerebral Neoplasm

The cortical tubers are abnormal, broad (potato-like), firm gyri. [neuropathology-web.org]

SEGA Tuberous sclerosis. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma at the foramen of Monro and cortical lesions. SEGA Tuberous sclerosis. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. [neuropathology-web.org]

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Vitiligo

In addition, vigabatrin was more effective in patients with tuberous sclerosis or cortical dysplasia compared to steroids. [rarediseases.org]

Any disorder that can lead to brain damage can be an underlying cause of West syndrome including trauma, brain malformations such as hemimegalencephaly or cortical dysplasia [rarediseases.org]

infections, chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome, neurocutaneous disorders such as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), Sturge Weber syndrome, incontinentia pigmenti [rarediseases.org]

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Protoplasmic Astrocytoma

Dysplasia and Tuberous Sclerosis 332 14114 Corpus Callosum AgenesisDysgenesis 333 14115 Other Anomalies 336 Scalp and Skull Lesions 341 1522 Subcutaneous and Intracranial [books.google.com]

These children are at risk of developing subependymal giant cell astrocytomas, cortical tubers, and subependymal nodules. [cancer.gov]

14104 Other Metabolic Encephalopathies and Leukoencephalopathies 328 14105 Miscellaneous Leukoencephalopathy 330 14111 SturgeWeber Syndrome 331 14113 Polymicrogyria Focal Cortical [books.google.com]

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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis

Brain imaging was suggestive of cortical tubers and subependymal nodules. The echocardiography showed right atrial rhabdomyoma. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The lesions occurring in this disorder include cortical tubers and angiofibromas, which are considered hamartomas or “uncontrolled growths” rather than neoplasms ( 1, 2, 26 [nature.com]

Baseline cranial MRI scans in patients with tuberous sclerosis showed cortical tubers and subependymal nodules, but no subependymal giant cell astrocytomas and no changes [clincancerres.aacrjournals.org]

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Tuberous Sclerosis Type 2

Until now cortical tubers have been neglected in this respect. [journals.plos.org]

Ultrastructure of tuberous sclerosis: cortical tuber and subependymal tumor. Ann Neurol, 9 (1981), pp. 174-181 [6] M. Mizuguchi, S. Takashima. [elsevier.es]

Two types of lesions are static (hamartias) ; cortical tubers, and subcortical heterotopic nodules, whereas subependymal nodules are often progressive (hamartoma), hence the [atlasgeneticsoncology.org]

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Tuberous Sclerosis Type 1

The presence of both white matter radial migration lines and cortical tubers is also counted only once. [path.upmc.edu]

Radiology. 1988 May; [PubMed PMID: 3357966] [22] Kassiri J,Snyder TJ,Bhargava R,Wheatley BM,Sinclair DB, Cortical tubers, cognition, and epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis. [statpearls.com]

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Hemimegalencephaly

The white-matter lesions were better seen in the neonatal period, whereas cortical tubers were better detected at a later age. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Within this classification based on histological and morphological criteria, HME find itself in the same group as the cortical harmatomas of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC [epilepsygenetics.net]

We describe two children with complex cortical malformations as well as the typical intracranial manifestations of tuberous sclerosis complex. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Cerebellar Neoplasm

The cortical tubers are abnormal, broad (potato-like), firm gyri. [neuropathology-web.org]

SEGA Tuberous sclerosis. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma at the foramen of Monro and cortical lesions. SEGA Tuberous sclerosis. Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. [neuropathology-web.org]

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