A Case of Pemphigus Vegetans.
- Author:
Sung Hun KIM
;
Young Ho WOON
;
Young Pio KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Pemphigus vegetans;
Indirect immunofluorescence study
- MeSH:
Animals;
Axilla;
Biopsy;
Eosinophils;
Epidermis;
Female;
Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect;
Guinea Pigs;
Humans;
Lip;
Middle Aged;
Pemphigus*;
Skin
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1988;26(3):415-418
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We experienced a 54-year-old female patient who had multiple vegetaing plaques and, peripherally, a few pustules in her both axillae. On the skin biopsy specimen of the vegetating plaque, it showed acanthosis, suprabasal acsntholysis, papillo-matosis, downward proliferation of the epidermis, and eosinophilic microroabscess in the epidermis. The indirect immunofluorescence study disclosed anto-antibody positive to intercellular substance of the lip of guinea pig, while direct. immuno-fluorescence of the perilesional skin reealed no specific findings. The skin lesion had improved with topical and systemic steroid therapy.
