IN the consideration of vesiculating and bullous eruptions of the oral mucosa, insufficient attention has been given to benign mucous-membrane pemphigus as a distinct clinical entity. Also, in many ...

Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has recently ...

A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...

Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has recently ...

In 1922 Stevens and Johnson 9 reported 2 cases of "a new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia." They believed that the features of their cases, although previously described as a ...

This is a rare autoimmune skin disorder that occurs when your immune system starts attacking healthy epidermis cells (the top layer of your skin). Pemphigus can manifest itself as blisters and sores ...

Linear IgA bullous dermatosis (LABD) is an autoimmune disease that causes blisters. People with LABD can develop blisters in the skin and the mucous membranes in their mouth, genitals, and eyelids.

A significant portion of coronavirus patients may experience bumps, swelling, and inflammation of the tongue, per new reports. So-called “COVID tongue” is not yet recognized as a symptom of COVID-19, ...