Cicatricial pemphigoid (Brunsting-Perry type) . Case report and immunofluorescence findings
Jacoby, W.D.; Bartholome, C.W.; Ramchand, S.C.; Simmons, E.B.; Burnham, T.K.
Archives of Dermatology 114(5): 779-781
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-987X PMID: 348119 Document Number: 133571
We describe clinical and immunofluorescence findings of a patient with Brunsting-Perry-type cicatricial pemphigoid. Direct immunofluorescence showed tissue-fixed basement membrane zone antibodies similar to those characteristic of bullous pemphigoid. Circulating antibodies to the basement membrane zone were not found. Brunsting-Perry-type cicatricial pemphigoid probably represents a clinical variation midway in the cicatricial pemphigoid-bullous pemphigoid spectrum of disease. Management with intralesional corticosteroids was successful in controlling the skin lesions.