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Optional Plurals

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"hepatic angiomyolipoma(s)"

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Biographical Date Spacing

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"John James Pringle (1855-1922) was a Scottish dermatologist who also studied this disease, leading some books to refer to it as "Bourneville-Pringle disease” ¹⁷."

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"Heinrich Vogt (1875-1957) was a German neurologist who is notable for establishing that the simultaneous presence of three clinical signs was pathognomonic for tuberous sclerosis complex; this became known as "Vogt triad” ¹⁸."

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EG List And

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"Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), also known as tuberous sclerosis (TS) or Bourneville disease, is a phakomatosis (neurocutaneous disorder) characterised by the development of multiple benign tumours of the embryonic ectoderm (e.g. skin, eyes, and central nervous system)."

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"Treatment of seizures is essential and depending on the degree of intellectual disability, supportive care may be required. Treatment will be dictated by individual manifestations (e.g. subependymal giant cell astrocytomas, or retroperitoneal haemorrhage from renal angiomyolipoma)."

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Emphasis

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"TSC1: encoding hamartin, on chromosome 9q34"

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"TSC2: encoding tuberin, on chromosome 16p13 (accounts for most cases)"

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Acronyms

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"A mnemonic to remember these manifestations is HAMARTOMAS."

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List Caps

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"Chiari malformations"

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Headings Valid

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Expected headings

H1 Terminology
H1 Usage
H1 Epidemiology
H2 Risk factors
H2 Associations
H1 Clinical presentation
H2 Complications
H1 Diagnosis
H2 Diagnostic criteria
H2 Diagnostic clues
H1 Pathology
H2 Aetiology
H2 Location
H2 Classification
H2 Macroscopic appearance
H2 Microscopic appearance
H2 Immunophenotype
H2 Markers
H2 Genetics
H1 Radiographic features
H2 Plain radiograph
H2 Mammography
H2 Antenatal ultrasound
H2 Transoesophageal echocardiography
H2 Ultrasound
H2 CT
H3 Dual-energy CT
H2 Angiography (DSA)
H2 MRI
H2 CT/MRI
H2 Nuclear medicine
H3 PET-CT
H3 PET-MRI
H1 Radiology report
H1 Treatment and prognosis
H2 Complications
H1 History and etymology
H1 Differential diagnosis
H2 Clinical differential diagnosis
H1 Practical points
H1 See also

"Neurological"

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"Thoracic"

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"Abdominal"

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"Musculoskeletal"

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"Skin"

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Parentheses

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"Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), also known as tuberous sclerosis (TS) or Bourneville disease, is a phakomatosis (neurocutaneous disorder) characterised by the development of multiple benign tumours of the embryonic ectoderm (e.g. skin, eyes, and central nervous system)."

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Inline EG

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"Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), also known as tuberous sclerosis (TS) or Bourneville disease, is a phakomatosis (neurocutaneous disorder) characterised by the development of multiple benign tumours of the embryonic ectoderm (e.g. skin, eyes, and central nervous system)."

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"Treatment of seizures is essential and depending on the degree of intellectual disability, supportive care may be required. Treatment will be dictated by individual manifestations (e.g. subependymal giant cell astrocytomas, or retroperitoneal haemorrhage from renal angiomyolipoma)."

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Semicolons

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"enhancement is variable and is not a useful feature in distinguishing them from subependymal giant cell astrocytomas (SGCA); only serial growth is reliable ^5,6"

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"have been detected as early as 15 weeks gestation and grow through pregnancy; common, seen in up to 80% of affected individuals ²⁴"

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"facial angiofibromas (Pringle nodules or adenoma sebaceum); seen in 75% of patients"

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"Heinrich Vogt (1875-1957) was a German neurologist who is notable for establishing that the simultaneous presence of three clinical signs was pathognomonic for tuberous sclerosis complex; this became known as "Vogt triad” ¹⁸."

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Oxford Comma

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"variable appearance, with nodular, ill-defined, cystic and band-like lesions seen"

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