This study sought to assess and compare retrospective demographic and clinical data of oral lesions of lichen planus, pemphigus vulgaris, and mucous membrane pemphigoid from the records of the Department of Oral Pathology and Surgery, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, covering a period of 55 years. Out of 25,435 specimens, these immunologically-mediated diseases...

A married female, aged 34, came to the London Jewish Hospital over 22 years ago with trachoma and pannus crassus of the right eye. Treatment by the ordinary methods was unsuccessful and consequently the operation of transplanting mucous membrane of the lip on to the eye (Denig's operation), was performed. For cosmetic reasons the mucous membrane graft was placed 2 or 3 mm. above the corneal lim...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Atenolol is commonly used by patients with hypertension, angina pectoris, or myocardial infarction. There have been reports of various adverse effects associated with the use of atenolol including bullous pemphigoid. To the best of our knowledge we present the first case report of atenolol-induced mucous membrane pemphigoid. CASE PRESENTATION A 42-year-old Thai man ...

BACKGROUND The dermoscopic features of pigmented lesions on the mucocutaneous junction and mucous membrane are different from those on hairy skin. Differentiation between benign lesions and malignant melanomas of these sites is often difficult. OBJECTIVE To define the dermoscopic patterns of lesions on the mucocutaneous junction and mucous membrane, and assess the applicability of standard de...