A 74-year-old woman presented with a 30-day history of blisters and erosions in the oral
cavity, trunk, and left eye conjunctival mucosa, also reporting a weight loss of 15 kg in the …

Cicatricial pemphigoid is an autoimmune disease predominantly of elderly patients.
Recently, a subtype of cicatricial pemphigoid with antibodies to epiligrin (laminin 5) was …

Although bullous pemphigoid and cicatricial pemphigoid are sometimes associated with
malignancy, it remains uncertain whether such an association is pathogenetically related or …

The article presents the case study of a 65-year-old Japanese man with stinging sensation
on the right buccal mucosa. It mentions that the patient's comorbidities were gout …

This study characterized the specific reactivity, IgG subclass, and complement fixing ability of
anti-laminin-5 IgG from 12 patients with anti-epiligrin cicatricial pemphigoid. Circulating IgG …

2. Next article in issue: Case of mucous membrane pemphigoid with immunoglobulin G
antibodies to the beta 3 subunit of laminin-332 showing clinically Stevens–Johnson …

Autoimmune bullous diseases (AIBDs) are occasionally associated with psoriasis vulgaris;
the most prevalent among them is bullous pemphigoid (BP), followed by antilaminin 1 …

Our laboratory has identified patients with cicatricial pemphigoid who have IgG anti-
basement membrane (BM) autoantibodies directed against the α3 subunit of laminin 5. To …

A 76-year-old Japanese man presented with a 6-year history of a sore throat. He was treated
at several clinics without any improvement before being referred to us. Physical examination …

We report the case of a 73-year-old Japanese woman suffering from antiepiligrin (laminin 5)
cicatricial pemphigoid (CP) with typical clinical and immunopathological features …