Nasza Dermatologia Online (Jan 2019)

Atypical presentation of pemphigus vulgaris – A rare case report

  • Asifa Niyaz,
  • B K Viswanath

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7241/ourd.20191.25
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 88 – 89

Abstract

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Pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune blistering disorder affecting the skin and mucous membrane with characteristic intraepithelial blistering. It commonly involves the oral mucosa and skin, Oral mucosal involvement may proceed the skin involvement. We here in report a case, where in the oral and skin lesion occurred concurrently in a 20 year old male with a 1 month history of multiple fluid filled lesions over the body, who is a known case of psychosis and epilepsy treated at many places as case of drug rash finally diagnosed in our hospital as case of pemphigus vulgaris.

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