Papillon-Lefevre Syndrome |
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| Authors: | Shiv Shanker Pareek M.B.B.S. D.V.D. Abdul Karim Al-Aska M.B.B.S. |
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| Affiliation: | From she Division of Dermatology and the Department of Medicine. King Khalid university Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | Papillon-Lefevre syndrome in six Saudi children in the same family is described. The parents were unaffected, and parental consanguinity was present. Palmoplantar keratosis started at the age of 1 1/2 years. The loss of deciduous teeth was a consequence of juvenile periodontitis. All essential features of the syndrome were present in this series. |
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