title: [Clinical and tomographic aspects of 29 cases of phakomatosis in Guinea].
abstract: The purpose of this report is to describe 29 cases of phakomatosis including 18 cases of tuberous sclerosis (Bourneville) and 11 cases of neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen) observed over a 10-year period at the Neurology Department of the University Hospital Centre in Conakry, Guinea. Findings during this period were consistent with those classically reported in the literature: high frequency of advanced skin lesions coalescing into massive tumours, occurrence of seizures of all types and development of a wide variety of complications as a result of late diagnosis. Our experience underscores the need for follow-up and surveillance of these patients by somatic studies based on neurological, ophthalmologic and tomographic data depending on clinical findings.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie, CHU Conakry, Guinée. mtsoumah@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Touré
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Souaré
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bah
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kourouma
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cissé
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koulibaly
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morel
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Diaby
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koné
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Ka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Doukouré
mesh_terms: D004569:Electroencephalography; D016701:Guinea; D006801:Humans; D020752:Neurocutaneous Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000175:diagnosis; D012640:Seizures; D012871:Skin Diseases; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014402:Tuberous Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis