Cardiac rhabdomyoma: a rare feature of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome.

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Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS) is a rare autosomal disorder, primarily characterised in adults by cutaneous features, pulmonary cysts that predispose to spontaneous pneumothorax and renal tumours. The syndrome is caused by pathogenic variants in the FLCN tumour suppressor gene, which plays a role in the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signalling pathway. We present the case of a newborn infant diagnosed with...

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