Dermatitis Herpetiformis with Acantholysis or Pemphigus with Response to Sulfonamides

Urticaria as Presenting Manifestation of Pemphigus Herpetiformis

“…Out of about 30 cases found in the literature none had a bad outcome and clinical manifestations were controlled with relatively small doses of steroids [3,4,7,8,10,13] and even by DDS only [5,11,14], Also in our patient, who differs from the other cases of the literature for her young age (most cases being older than 50 years), the disease appears to be easily controlled with small doses of steroids and DDS.…”

Preventive Effect of Dapsone on Renal Scarring following Mannose-Sensitive Piliated Bacterial Infection

“…Good therapeutic results of dapsone have been reported in bullous diseases, subcorneal pustular dermatitis, generalized pustular psoriasis, leukocytoclastic vasculitis and some cases of rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease [16][17][18][19][20][21]. Dapsone also shows anti-inflammatory activity comparable to other established nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as indomethacin [20].…”

Coexistence of Peculiar Pemphigus, Myasthenia gravis and Malignant Thymoma

“…Thus, the lack of the junctional deposits of IgA, so characteristic of dermatitis herpetiformis [10], and the presence of both circulating and in vivo bound intercellular antibodies in the present case as well as the cases reported recently [2,7,9] indicate that these cases belong to a variety of pemphigus. Clinically and histologically, most of such cases reported in the past appear to be closely related to the superficial type of pemphigus [2,7,9,23,29], and this makes a remarkable contrast to the fact that among various types of pemphigus, pemphigus vulgaris is much more common than the superficial types of pemphigus.…”