Background: No data are available on the incidence and immunoreactivity of autoimmune subepidermal blistering skin diseases in East Africa. Methods: All patients with frank blisters/erosions on the skin and/or mucous ...
Background: Influenza vaccination has been suggested to be a trigger for bullous pemphigoid (BP). In our area most new patients with BP are admitted to hospital. Objectives: To detect a difference in the rate of admis...
Fogo selvagem (FS), the endemic form of pemphigus foliaceus (PF), is an autoimmune blistering disease characterized by autoantibodies against desmoglein 1. The Terena reservation of Limao Verde in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...
The mechanobullous disease Hallopeau-Siemens recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (HS-RDEB) results from mutations in the typeVII collagen gene (COL7A1) on chromosome 3p21.31. Typically, there are frameshift, sp...
Background: Since 1967 dermatology has used the classic technique of indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) for the detection of autoantibodies against antigens of the skin in diseased people with endemic pemphigus foliace...
Background: Eruptive epidermolysis bullosa (EB) naevi comprise a subset of melanocytic naevi with atypical features that characteristically occur in areas of former blistering in patients suffering from hereditary EB....
Wells’syndrome is a multifaceted dermatosis with a wide morphological spectrum, ranging from characteristic cellulitis-like erythema and wheals to an unusual presentation of vesicles and bullae. We describe a patient...
Background. Bullous lesions of acral distribution are an uncommon finding in Bazex’s syndrome (acrokeratosis paraneoplastica). We report here one of these rare cases. Patients and methods. A 65 year-old-man, an alcoh...
We describe a 64-year-old Brazilian man who developed bullous pemphigoid(BP)12 years after pemphigus foliaceus(PF)was diagnosed.On his first presentation in 1992,histological examination revealed intraepidermal bliste...
Hailey-Hailey disease(HHD;MIM 16960)is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disorder characterized by recurrent eruption of vesicles and bullae,predominantly involving the body folds.It is caused by heterozygous mutat...