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Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita and multiple myeloma
Leela Engineer1, Edward C Dow, Irwin M Braverman
1Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|November 27, 2002
Abstract:
The coexistence in the same patient of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (a rare, autoimmune, acquired mucocutaneous blistering disorder) and multiple myeloma (a plasma cell neoplasm) is extremely uncommon. We describe a patient in whom both of these diseases occurred simultaneously. Intravenous immunoglobulins were used to treat both diseases.