Items tagged “phakomatoses”
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Neurofibromatosis type 1
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), also known as von Recklinghausen disease, is a multisystem neurocutaneous disorder, the most common phakomatosis, and a RASopathy. Additionally, it is also one of the most common inherited CNS disorders, autosomal dominant disorders, and inherited tumor syndromes....
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Neurofibromatosis type 2
Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is a rare autosomal dominant neurocutaneous disorder (phakomatosis) manifesting as a development of multiple CNS tumors. Unlike neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), it is not associated with neurofibromas. Instead, patients with this disease have
intracranial schwannom...
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Sturge-Weber syndrome
Sturge-Weber syndrome, or encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis, is a phakomatosis characterized by facial port wine stains and pial angiomas.
It is part of a wide spectrum of possible phenotypes included in the cerebrofacial arteriovenous metameric syndrome (CAMS).
The key features of Sturge-Webe...
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (cutaneous manifestations)
Cutaneous manifestations of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), or von Recklinghausen disease, are the heralding features of this multisystem neurocutaneous disorder, which is the most common phakomatosis.
Nowadays genetic testing permits the laboratory diagnosis of NF1 in as many as 95%, although ...
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Hypomelanosis of Ito
Hypomelanosis of Ito, also known as incontinentia pigmenti achromians, is the third most frequent phakomatosis, involving a wide spectrum of defects in multiple organ systems.
Epidemiology
The prevalence is unknown, being reported as between 1 per 8000 patients in a general pediatric hospital ...
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Gomez-Lopez-Hernandez syndrome
Gomez-Lopez-Hernandez syndrome, also known as cerebellotrigeminal-dermal dysplasia, is a rare phakomatosis characterized by rhombencephalosynapsis, parietal-occipital scalp alopecia, brachycephaly, facial malformations and trigeminal anesthesia.
Epidemiology
There have only been 35 reported c...
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (mnemonic)
Clinical diagnosis requires the presence of at least two criteria to confirm the presence of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) 1.
These diagnostic criteria can be remembered with the mnemonic:
CAFE SPOT
Mnemonic
C: café-au-lait spots (greater than six seen during one year)
A: axillary or ingui...
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