Circulating Antibodies in Cicatricial Pemphigoid
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 108 (2) , 264-266
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1973.01620230060023
Abstract
Cicatricial pemphigoid is a chronic, scarring, vesiculobullous eruption, with a theoretical autoimmune cause. It is closely related to bullous pemphigoid, yet unlike bullous pemphigoid, no circulating antibodies have been found. We present here a patient with cicatricial pemphigoid with circulating antibodies to the basement membrane zone of the skin, thus giving more evidence for it being an immunologic disease and for rationale for treatment.Keywords
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