Case report: A rollercoaster journey of pemphigus vegetans
Xiaoyuan Hou, Jia Chen · 2025
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Description
Xiaoyuan Hou and Jia Chen tell the up and down story of a rare skin disease in a case report whose head dates it to 2024. The disease, pemphigus vegetans, is the rarest form of a blistering illness. It raises leafy plaques in skin folds, ringed by small pus spots, and is driven by antibodies against a skin glue protein.
A sixty year old woman had red leafy plaques on her feet, groin, and thigh. Tissue checks showed a thickened skin top with swarms of two white cell types. Blood tests found high levels of the glue protein antibody. Care with either a shot drug or a steroid by mouth brought the disease to rest. The case shows how mixed the path to a firm name can be.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaoyuan Hou, Jia Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |