Indian Dermatology Online Journal (Jan 2014)

Juvenile pemphigoid nodularis: Report of a rare case

  • Dipti Das,
  • Debabrata Bandyopadhyay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.131101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 189 – 192

Abstract

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Bullous pemphigoid is an autoimmune blistering disease that is rare in childhood. Pemphigoid nodularis is a variant of BP that is exceedingly rare in children. Pemphigoid nodularis is characterized by overlapping clinical features of both prurigo nodularis and BP. We report here a case of pemphigoid nodularis in an 11-year-old boy.

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