Tuberous sclerosis with an atypical radiological skull change: case report.
The authors describe a case of tuberous sclerosis with atypical radiological skull change in a 8-year-old Japanese child. A plain roentgenogram showed thinning and convolution of the left occipital bone, and a cortical tuber adjacent to the thinned bone was shown by computed tomography. This kind of skull change may suggest the existence of a cortical tuber in patients with tuberous sclerosis, although this finding has not been reported previously. The mechanism of this skull change is discussed.
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009777:Occipital Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery