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Bullous pemphigoid in infancy--a case report including new immunoblotting observations
L S Ostlere1, H Stevens, M M Black
1Department of Dermatology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 1-year-old boy developed bullous pemphigoid. Immunoblotting, which has not been previously reported in childhood pemphigoid, showed the serum reacted to a 190 kDa band only. Bullous pemphigoid is rare in infancy and childhood with only 40 cases previously reported. A brief review of the literature is given and treatment of childhood bullous pemphigoid is discussed.