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Is it always blepharitis? Urbach-Wiethe syndrome (lipoid proteinosis)

Overview of attention for article published in Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, March 2019
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Title
Is it always blepharitis? Urbach-Wiethe syndrome (lipoid proteinosis)
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, March 2019
DOI 10.5935/0004-2749.20190051
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Bahar Gunes, Remzi Karadag, Lokman Uzun, Bengu Cobanoglu Sımsek, Ayse Serap Karadag

Abstract

A 12-year-old girl presented with recurrent crusty debris and dandruff at the base of both eyelashes despite having completed different medical treatments. She had had a hoarse voice since her early childhood. Upon anterior segment examination of the eyes, we found yellow-white, bead-like papules on the margins of the eyelids. An otolaryngologist detected multiple nodules on the vocal cords and buccal mucosa. Ultrasonography revealed salivary stones in the main parotid ducts. And a dermatological examination revealed thickened skin lesions on the elbows and knees with a biopsy showing histopathological findings of lipoid proteinosis. We diagnosed the patients as having Urbach-Wiethe syndrome or lipoid proteinosis, a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder with variable manifestations vary that difficult the diagnosis. The ocular manifestations are not well known among ophthalmologists, but the typical lid lesions are pathognomonic and ophthalmologists should be aware of this presentation to identify patients with Urbach-Wiethe syndrome.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 11 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 18%
Student > Master 2 18%
Professor 1 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 9%
Student > Postgraduate 1 9%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 36%
Environmental Science 1 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2019.
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#20,663,600
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#256
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#280,493
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