INTRODUCTION Literature regarding oral conditions in patients with Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS) often covers the periodontal aspects, but no literature was found describing specific craniofacial findings in this group. The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the cephalometric findings of patients with PLS. METHODS Lateral cephalograms of 8 patients with PLS were traced, and ...

Palmoplantar keratodermas (PPK) include a heterogeneous group of disorders with overlapping clinical features. The main aspect of PPK is thickening and hyperkeratosis of the palmar and plantar skin, that may be hereditary or acquired; diffuse, focal, or punctuate; and transgrediens or progrediens. PPKs are further distinguished by their mode of inheritance and by the presence of certain associa...

The paper aims to propose to add pragmatic characteristic tags for lexis to actual tag set in monolingual dictionaries, and use them to make an automatic acception links on the Papillon database. We have three motivations for proposing it : First, information on pragmatics of lexis is, namely for non-native speakers, indispensable from user oriented viewpoint, in order to give whole information...