epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica/erythema

Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a rare group of diseases caused by genetic variants in skin structural proteins. EB is characterized by varying degrees of skin fragility, blisters and impaired wound healing and is classified based on the ultrastructural levels of skin cleavage - simplex, junctional,

BACKGROUND Gingival lesions in patients with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) are a common manifestation. However, their clinical features, frequency and severity are currently unknown. METHODS Forty-five DEB patients were assessed by an oral medicine specialist, who analysed the

Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) was diagnosed in five newborn Assaf lambs from a flock in which around 1-2% of the lambs were lame. Affected animals had marked erythema of the coronary band and subsequent detachment of the hooves. Blisters were present on the lips and in the oral and

We report a 51-year-old man with a 20-year history of chronic plaque psoriasis who developed an autoimmune subepidermal blistering eruption that had clinical features of bullous pemphigoid, erythema multiforme and epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. Investigations revealed a 1 : 400 titre circulating

Caterpillar bodies are eosinophilic, elongated, segmented bodies located within the roofs of blisters and are considered to represent a specific histopathologic feature of porphyric bullous eruptions, including porphyria cutanea tarda and erythropoietic protoporphyria. The possibility that similar