| He has made important contributions in autoantibody-mediated disease in pemphigus and pemphigoid. |
| We report the case of a 45 year old female who presented a laryngeal pemphigus which evolved during several years before its cure. |
| The vesicular and bullous types demand mild protective applications, such as used in eczema and pemphigus. |
| Bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris also cause blistering skin lesions that appear in later adulthood, similar to porphyria cutanea tarda. |
| Intact blisters tend to outnumber erosions in pemphigoid, while the reverse is true of the more superficial blisters occurring in pemphigus. |
| Those with benign familial chronic pemphigus have a decreased number of desmosomes in the skin. |
