Tuberous sclerosis: ultrasound, CT and MRI features of two cases with multiple organ involvement

Australas Radiol. 1998 Nov;42(4):379-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1998.tb00544.x.

Abstract

The cases of two patients with tuberous sclerosis with multiple sites of involvement are presented. Both patients had characteristic cerebral lesions of tuberous sclerosis associated with bilateral renal angiomyolipomas and hepatic hamartomas. Additionally there were diffuse pulmonary cystic changes in one patient and cardiac rhabdomyoma in the other.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Angiomyolipoma / complications
  • Angiomyolipoma / diagnosis
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Hamartoma / complications
  • Hamartoma / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / complications
  • Kidney Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Liver Diseases / complications
  • Liver Diseases / diagnosis
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tuberous Sclerosis / complications
  • Tuberous Sclerosis / diagnosis*