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Neurocutaneous Diseases (Phakomatoses)

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Book cover MRI in Epilepsy

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This chapter describes phakomatoses associated with epilepsy, namely, tuberous sclerosis complex, Sturge–Weber syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1, meningioangiomatosis, hypomelanosis of Ito, epidermal nevus syndrome and variants, incontinentia pigmenti, lipoproteinosis, and linear scleroderma, which is also known as en coup de sabre syndrome.

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Urbach, H. (2013). Neurocutaneous Diseases (Phakomatoses). In: Urbach, H. (eds) MRI in Epilepsy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_780

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