BP: bullous pemphigoid DP: dyshidrosiform pemphigoid INTRODUCTION Dyshidrosiform bullous pemphigoid (DP) is an unusual localized variant of bullous pemphigoid (BP), first described by Levine et al in 1979. It presents with a persistent and recurrent vesicobullous eruption, sometimes hemorrhagic, localized to the soles and/or palms. Since the clinical manifestations of DP are similar to those of...

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune blistering disorder of the skin first described in 1953. A decade later, antibodies were described targeting the cutaneous basement membrane zone. The association of Bullous pemphigoid with malignancy is debatable1 but reported in many case reports.2-6 We report a 79 year old male with cholangiocarcinoma that presented with bullous pemphigoid as a parane...

BP: bullous pemphigoid MMP: mucous membrane pemphigoid INTRODUCTION Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) is a rare, autoantibody-mediated disease characterized by mucocutaneous blistering including oral, ocular, laryngeal, and skin involvement. Treating MMP is challenging, with few effective therapies available. We report successful treatment of a patient with treatment-refractory MMP with the prot...

HLA antigen frequencies were studied in 20 patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid and 245 normal persons. HLA-B12 demonstrated an increased frequency of 45% in patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid which was statistically significant when compared to a frequency of 19.6% in the general population (P less than 0.02). In patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid the prevalance of HLA...

Five patients with herpes gestationis, a blistering disease of pregnancy, were studied immunologically. All had in vivo deposition of C3 in a linear band along the basement membrane zone of lesional and normal-appearing skin, the location of early blister formation. Immunoglobulin deposition was more variable, though four patients had evidence of in vivo bound IgG at the same site. A circulatin...

The association of autoimmune bullous diseases (i.e., bullous pemphigoid, linear IgA disease, mucous membrane pemphigoid and IgA pemphigus) and inflammatory bowel disease, namely ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease has formerly been reported. However, to our knowledge, we report herein the first case of lymphocytic colitis with concomitant bullous pemphigoid.

The Gulf Journal of Dermatology and Venereology ABSTRACT Psoriasis vulgaris and bullous pemphigoid represent two clinically well-characterized, chronic, inflammatory skin diseases. The concomitant occurrence of these two entities in a patient is rare, and the exact nature of this relationship is not clear. We describe a 31-year-old woman with a history of plaque-type psoriasis who presented wit...