Pemphigus Foliaceus Associated with Psoriasis during the Course of Narrow-Band UVB Therapy: A Simple Coincidence?

Pemphigus Foliaceus Associated with Psoriasis during the Course of Narrow-Band UVB Therapy: A Simple Coincidence?

Although psoriasis and bullous diseases are considered to be completely different disease entities, the literature has reported a few cases of psoriasis associated with bullous diseases, most of which are bullous pemphigoid. In limited cases, pemphigus foliaceus has also been reported in association with psoriasis. In most of them, pemphigus lesions usually developed on an untreated patient wit...

A Case of Pemphigus Foliaceus Co-existing with Psoriasis

History A 37-year-old man first presented in September, 1997 with scaly plaques on the lower limbs, clinically consistent with plaque psoriasis. He was known to be hepatitis B surface antigen positive and hepatitis B e antigen negative. The psoriasis was subsequently treated with topical steroid and acitretin for ten weeks with a good response. He then defaulted follow-up, but reattended in Apr...

Coexistence of psoriasis vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus.

Pemphigus foliaceus with pustular presentation in a patient with psoriasis*

Pemphigus foliaceus is a chronic autoimmune disease of the skin, clinically characterized by scaly and crusty cutaneous erosions involving the seborrheic areas. The patient can eventually become erythrodermic. There are reports of atypical cases of pemphigus foliaceus with pustules and neutrophils, and clinical differentiation from generalized pustular psoriasis of von Zumbusch is difficult. We...

A Rare Case of Annular Pustular Psoriasis Associated with Pemphigus Foliaceus

260 Ann Dermatol Received March 13, 2013, Revised April 11, 2013, Accepted for publication April 19, 2013 *These authors equally contributed as first authors. Corresponding author: Ken Igawa, Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. Tel: 81-6-6879-3031, Fax: 86-6879-3039, E-mail: [email protected] This...