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Hereditary mucoepithelial dysplasia: clinical, ultrastructural and genetic study of eight patients and literature review
28 Jul 2005
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BACKGROUND: Hereditary mucoepithelial dysplasia is a dominantly inherited disease, mainly characterized by chronic mucosal lesions associated with keratitis, non-scarring alopecia, keratosis pilaris and perineal intertrigo. Since the original report by Witkop, this condition has been considered to be a disorder of desmosome/gap junction formation, but there has been no ex vivo investigation of these components...
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