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Vilma Pineda, DDS

Diagnosis

cicatricial pemphigoid ulcer

Body Site

mouth gingiva

Age

73 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

scattered

Color

red

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

symmetric

Comments

This 73-year-old woman, who was initially diagnosed with desquamative gingivitis and failed to improve on antibiotics, had an erosive scarring gingivitis and stomatitis which showed the characteristic histologic and immunfluorescent findings for cicatricial pemphigoid.

Description

scattered erosions

Categories

dental/oral disorder vesiculobullous eruptions vesiculobullous eruptions, immunobullous

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4/13/2005 22:57:02

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