A retinal astrocytoma ("mulberry lesion") adjacent to the optic nerve is typical of those found with tuberous sclerosis complex. Reproduced with permission from Roach ES: Neurocutaneous syndromes.

Treatments are similar to those offered to patients without tuberous sclerosis complex who have epilepsy, including medication, vagus nerve stimulation, the ketogenic diet, and surgery.

Further diagnostic workup was planned, and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) was suspected based on the fact that the retinal lesions morphologically resembled hamartomas.

Tuberous sclerosis is a multisystem disorder exhibiting a wide range of manifestations. Characteristic skin lesions include facial angiofibromas, hypopigmented macules, shagreen patches and ungual ...

Tuberous sclerosis (TS) is a rare, multisystem genetic disease that causes benign tumors to form in a number of vital organs—primarily the brain, eyes, heart, kidney, skin, and lungs.

Tuberous sclerosis neurodevelopment attributed to newly identified cell type unique to human brains, in a recent cerebral organoid study.

Nearly 1 million people worldwide are living with a rare genetic disease that causes non-cancerous tumors or lesions to grow in the brain or around the body.

Scientists at Osaka University developed a new drug treating skin lesions in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a rare intractable disease, a world first. Following the physician-led clinical ...

Scientists at Osaka University developed a new drug treating skin lesions in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a rare intractable disease, a world first.

More than one area of the brain is responsible for autistic behavior in children with tuberous sclerosis and brain lesions, according to an article published in the October 9 issue of Neurology ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) presents in the pediatric population with a constellation of benign tumors that affect the brain, heart, kidney, lung, and skin.

Nobelpharma America has become the first company to win FDA approval for a topical treatment for facial angiofibroma associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC).