Case of Pemphigus, or Burnt Holes

A Case of Pemphigus

A FAMILIAL CASE OF PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS

A family in which two members are affected by pemphigus vulgaris is presented from Gilan. Up to now only 25 families in which more than one member was affected have been reported

A Case of Chronic Pemphigus

A patient, aged 50 years, had been suffering from chronic pemphigus for about a year when he was an in-patient in this hospital from 19th December, 1944, to 24th January, 1945. He was given treatment consisting mainly of twelve intramuscular injections of calcium and twelve of liver extract, glucose orally and calamine liniment locally, and was discharged apparently cured and free from any blis...

Pemphigus herpetiformis with progression to pemphigus foliaceus: a case report.

Pemphigus herpetiformis (PH) is an uncommon variant of pemphigus that accounts for an estimated 6% to 7.2% of all cases of this skin disorder. The term pemphigus herpetiformis was coined by Jablonska et al. in 1975 to describe a entity that was clinically similar to dermatitis herpetiformis, showed acantholysis on biopsy, and responded to sulfapyridine. The authors considered that PH was a vari...

A Case Report of Neonatal Pemphigus vulgaris

Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a chronic, rare mucocutaneous autoimmune bullous diseases characterized by flaccid blisters and/or pustules, with secondary erosions of the mucous membranes / skin. Pemphigus vulgaris is threatening patient life by the formation of splits within the epidermis, accompanied by acantholysis (separation of keratinocytes from each other). In this article, a term female neo...