Granulation tissue in the eyelid margin and conjunctiva in junctional epidermolysis bullosa with features of laryngo-onycho-cutaneous syndrome

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-166

  Figueira, Edwin C ^a   Crotty, Anne ^b   Challinor, Christopher J ^c   Coroneo, Minas T ^a,d   Murrell, Dedee F ^d,e,f  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Hunter New England Health Pathology ^*  (Australia)

^c JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidermolysis bullosa; LAMA3 and LAMA3a mutations; Laryngo onycho cutaneous syndrome; Larynx

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; LAMININ; LAMININ ALPHA3; LAMININ ALPHA3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CORNEA EROSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EYE IRRITATION; EYELID BIOPSY; EYELID DISEASE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNGOONYCHOCUTANEOUS SYNDROME; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AUTOANTIGENS; CHILD; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA, JUNCTIONAL; EYELID DISEASES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMANS; LAMININ; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MALE; MUTATION; NON-FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33847786315     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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