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Epstein syndrome: oral lesions in a patient with nephropathy, deafness and thrombocytopenia
A Richards1, C Scully, J Eveson
1Centre for the Study of Oral Disease, University Department of Oral Medicine, Surgery and Pathology, Bristol, England.
Abstract:
Epstein syndrome is a rare dominantly inherited disorder in which the main features are nephritis, deafness and macrothrombocytopathic thrombocytopenia. A case with oral haemorrhage and purpuric lesions is reported. This appears to be the first report of this syndrome in the dental literature.