Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a congenital genodermatosis, which affects mainly skin and occasionally other organs [1]. Lifelong blistering and erosion of the skin and mucous membrane, caused by mechanical trauma, threaten EB patients [1]. The most common cause of death is metastasizing squamous cell carcinoma [2]. EB is subdivided into mainly three categories by the location of tissue separati...

The ashgray blister beetle. EpiCtluta [abricii (LeConte); th e striped blister beetle. E. lilt/ala (F.) ; and the margined bli ster beetle, E. p estijer« Werner. collected in the field from plants of sweetclover low in coumarin content, fed preferentially in the Iaboratory on low-coumarin leaves when offered a choice between leaves from highand low-coumarin plants. The black bli ster beetle. E....

Lichen planus pemphigoides (LPP) is a rare autoimmune blistering disease that is characterized by the development of vesico-bullous skin lesions in patients with lichen planus. The histopathology of LPP reveals a sub_epidermal blister with linear deposition of IgG and /or C3 along the dermal_epidermal junction (DEJ) upon direct immunofluorescence (DIF). We hereunder describe a case of lichen pl...

Pretibial epidermolysis bullosa is a rare variant of hereditary epidermolysis bullosa characterized by the delayed onset of lesions and their localization. We present two cases, a 35-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man. They clinically had pruritus, nodular prurigo-like or lichenified lesions, violaceous scarring, milia, nail dystrophy and in one case albopapuloid lesions on the trunk. Physica...

count of 41 × 103/mm3. Isotretinoin therapy was suspended and new treatment was instated with 100 mg/d prednisone; oral contraceptive medication was maintained. After 9 days, the platelet count had returned to normal (179 × 103/mm3) and prednisone was suspended. The Coombs test and tests for antinuclear antibodies, anticardiolipin, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus...