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. 1990 Apr;65(4 Spec No):377–379. doi: 10.1136/adc.65.4_spec_no.377

Tuberous sclerosis presenting with fetal and neonatal cardiac tumours.

G Wallace 1, H C Smith 1, G H Watson 1, S Rimmer 1, S W D'Souza 1
PMCID: PMC1590155  PMID: 2186708

Abstract

Cardiac tumours were identified on ultrasonography in fetal or early postnatal life in five infants. Tuberous sclerosis was subsequently diagnosed in all five. Only one infant required operation. Regression of the tumour occurred in three. No infant had hypomelanotic macules at birth, and they took up to two years to appear.

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