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Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 7e
| Part 2. Disorders Presenting in Skin and Mucous Membranes > Section 8. Disorders of Epidermal and Dermal-Epidermal Cohesion and Vesicular and Bullous Disorders > |
Chapter 54. Bullous Pemphigoid
Sections: Bullous Pemphigoid: Introduction, Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathogenesis, Clinical Findings, Histopathology, Associated Diseases, Differential Diagnosis, Prognosis and Clinical Course, Treatment, References.
Topics Discussed: bullous pemphigoid.
Excerpt:
"Walter Lever was a pioneer in classifying bullous pemphigoid
as a disease different from pemphigus with its own distinctive clinical
and histologic features.1 This was important because
at the time pemphigus vulgaris usually was fatal, whereas bullous pemphigoid
had a comparatively good prognosis. This classification of bullous
pemphigoid and pemphigus was confirmed and fully justified by the
distinctive immunopathologic features of these diseases discovered
approximately 12 years later.2,3..."
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