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Tyrosinemia Type III is caused by the deficiency of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (4-HPPD), an enzyme involved in the catabolic pathway of tyrosine. To our knowledge, only a few patients presenting with this disease have been described in the literature, and the clinical phenotype remains variable and unclear. We report the case of a boy with tyrosinemia Type III detected using neonatal screening, who is homozygous for the splice donor mutation IVS11+1G>A in intron 11 of the HPD gene. At the age of 30 months, the boy's outcome under mild protein restriction was characterized by normal growth and psychomotor development.

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