Tuberous sclerosis
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Triad of cutaneous fibromas, seizures, and mental retardation
Fibromas are common under the fingernails and sometimes on the nose (not as many fibromas as in NF type I)
Brain lesions are common, including subependymal giant cell astrocytomas and little heterotopic hamartomas in the brain called tubers (benign rests of disorganized brain tissue)
Might also have renal angiomyolipomas, retinal glial hamartomas, cardiac myxomas, and visceral cysts
This disease is autosomal dominant
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