Epitope Spreading Phenomenon: A Case Report

The concomitant occurrence of psoriasis vulgaris (PV) and bullous pemphigoid in a patient is rare. We report a 55-year-old male, with history of PV since 4 years, on irregular topical medication, who developed multiple fluid-filled lesions all over the body. A combination treatment with prednisolone...

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Autores principales: Krishnaswamy, Keerthana, Raju, Belliappa Pemmada, Raveendra, Leena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31544082
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_416_18
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description The concomitant occurrence of psoriasis vulgaris (PV) and bullous pemphigoid in a patient is rare. We report a 55-year-old male, with history of PV since 4 years, on irregular topical medication, who developed multiple fluid-filled lesions all over the body. A combination treatment with prednisolone, cyclosporine, and dapsone followed by methotrexate was proved suitable and effective.
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spelling pubmed-67433852019-09-20 Epitope Spreading Phenomenon: A Case Report Krishnaswamy, Keerthana Raju, Belliappa Pemmada Raveendra, Leena Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report The concomitant occurrence of psoriasis vulgaris (PV) and bullous pemphigoid in a patient is rare. We report a 55-year-old male, with history of PV since 4 years, on irregular topical medication, who developed multiple fluid-filled lesions all over the body. A combination treatment with prednisolone, cyclosporine, and dapsone followed by methotrexate was proved suitable and effective. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6743385/ /pubmed/31544082 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_416_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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