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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
Ligneous conjunctivitis (LC) is a rare disorder characterized by a chronic course of recurrent membranous lesions at conjunctivae. Pseudomembranes of other mucous membranes have been reported in patients with LC, but to the best of our knowledge, no case with alveolar involvement has been described. Here, we report a 2.5-year-old girl with LC who had tracheoaveolar involvement and homozygous type I plasminogen deficiency. Tracheal involvement was diagnosed by bronchoscopic biopsy and alveolar involvement with postmortem biopsy. She was shown to be homozygous for frameshift mutation in plasminogen exon 14 (Gly565ins-G) with molecular genetic examination of DNA which was obtained from parafin embedded postmortem lung tissue. Ligneous inflammation of the upper and lower respiratory tract must be considered in children with LC and recurrent respiratory tract problems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
8755-6863
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
179-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-3-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Pulmonary involvement in a child with ligneous conjunctivitis and homozygous type I plasminogen deficiency.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Chest Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. uozcelik@gen.hum.edu.tr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports