Diagnosis of Immunoglobulin G4-related disease in a child with ligneous conjunctivitis: a novel mutation in plasminogen gene and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 polymorphism.

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OBJECTIVES: Ligneous conjunctivitis (LC) is a chronic conjunctivitis characterized by recurrent, firm, fibrin-rich, woody pseudomembranes on the palpebral conjunctiva. It is an ultrarare autosomal recessive disease associated with congenital plasminogen (PLG) deficiency due to mutations in the PLG gene (6q26). Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an idiopathic, systemic fibroinflammatory disease...

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