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Hereditary Benign Intraepithelial DyskeratosisI. Ocular Manifestations
LUDWIG VON SALLMANN, M.D.;
DAVID PATON, M.D.
AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1960;63(3):421-429.
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The disease described here is considered to be a previously unreported entity affecting mucous membranes of the eye and mouth. The eye lesions occur bilaterally and involve the interpalpebral conjunctiva; in the mouth there are alterations of the buccal mucosa. Typical changes at these sites may be observed in early childhood and persist throughout life with variable intensity. The clinical picture shows considerable diversity, but the histopathology has characteristics common to both lesions and thus supports the clinical impression of a single disease process. There is no sex predominance and as far as is known the disease is inherited as a simple Mendelian dominant. The present report is concerned primarily with the ophthalmologic aspects of this disease. Information on the oral manifestations of this dyskeratosis and summary data on its hereditary transmission are given in a second paper in this series by C. J. Witkop Jr., C. H. Shankle, J.
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Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md.
From the Ophthalmology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 26, 1959.
Read in part at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Virginia, May, 1959.
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