Autoimmune bullous eruption localized to a breast reconstruction site: response to niacinamide
Honl, B.A.; Elston, D.M.
Cutis 62(2): 85-86
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0011-4162 PMID: 9714904 Document Number: 487655
A case of bullous pemphigoid responding to niacinamide as monotherapy is reported. Clinically, the patient presented with bullous lesions localized to the left breast. She had a history of a left breast mastectomy for breast cancer. This was followed by radiation therapy to the left chest wall and delayed left breast reconstruction achieved with a transposition flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle. There have been reports of bullous pemphigoid treated with a combination of tetracycline and niacinamide. This is the first report, to our knowledge, of a case of bullous pemphigoid responding to niacinamide alone.