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An Unusual Case Without Mental Deficiency or Epilepsy

ROBERT LEE SCHEIG, M.D.; PAUL BORNSTEIN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1961;108(5):789-795.

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The signs and symptoms of tuberous sclerosis usually appear in infancy or early childhood with no orderly sequence of development.¹ Seizures and mental deficiency may be apparent at the age of 1 or 2 years while adenoma sebaceum and other cutaneous lesions most commonly appear between the ages of 4 and 9. Sometimes patients may show a forme fruste of the disease in which some of the features are absent. The disease, which affects males more commonly than females, occurs in approximately 1:50,000 births.² About half give a family history of mental retardation, seizures, severe psychopathic or psychotic tendencies, or characteristic skin lesions.¹ Inheritance appears to be on the basis of a rare autosomal dominant gene with incomplete penetrance.^3,4 Occasionally, the gene may appear as a mutant. Formes frustes are thought to be due to an independent pair of modifying genes. Although 30% of patients are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., and the Veterans Administration Hospital, West Haven, Conn.; Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine (Dr. Scheig) and Assistant Resident (Dr. Bornstein), Department of Internal Medicine, Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Conn.

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Submitted for publication Sept. 9, 1960.

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