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A ligneous periodontitis and conjunctival lesions in a patient with plasminogen deficiency.

Toker H, Toker MI, Goze F, Turgut M, Yilmaz A

Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. hcakmak@cumhuriyet.edu.tr

Destructive membranous periodontal disease is a rare and poorly defined entity that is a part of a systemic disease due to accumulation of fibrin material. The disease is characterized by gingival enlargement and periodontal tissue destruction that leads to rapid bone loss despite treatment efforts. We present a case with ligneous periodontitis and conjunctivitis.

Published 28 May 2007 in Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod, 103(6): e35-8.
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