ESOPHAGEAL INVOLVEMENT IN A PATIENT WITH PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS

Esophageal Involvement of Pemphigus Vulgaris Associated with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Esophageal involvement of pemphigus vulgaris is rare, and when present, the most common presenting symptoms reported in the medical literature are odynophagia and dysphagia. Here, we present two cases of pemphigus vulgaris presenting with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage because of esophageal involvement of the disease. In case 1, a 41-year-old female patient with a prior diagnosis of pemphigu...

Esophageal involvement by pemphigus vulgaris resulting in dysphagia.

resulting in dysphagia A 44-year-old man was admitted to our institution because of the appearance of painful cutaneous, oral, and genital vesicles. His previous medical history was unremarkable. He had had pharyngitis treated with amoxicillin 1 month before the hospitalization. On physical examination, symmetrically erythematous plaques, covered with vesicles, were seen. Because of subsequent ...

Nail involvement in pemphigus vulgaris.

Dermatopathic lymphadenitis in a patient with pemphigus vulgaris

Dermatopathic lymphadenitis (DL) is a reactive lymphoid hyperplasia that commonly involves the regional lymph nodes in patients with chronic dermatoses, such as exfoliative dermatitis, toxic-shock syndrome, pemphigus, psoriasis, eczema, and, in severe cases, mycosis fungoides. Diagnosis of DL depends on the histopathologic characteristics of paracortical T-zone expansion with melanin, hemosider...

Laryngeal involvement in pemphigus vulgaris: a proposed classification.

OBJECTIVE (1) To investigate the incidence of laryngeal involvement in a large series of patients with pemphigus vulgaris, using endoscopic examination, (2) to describe the lesions, and (3) to establish a classification of laryngeal involvement in pemphigus vulgaris based on the location of the lesions. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS A total of 40 sequentially treated pemphigus vul...