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Clin Case Rep. 2020 Jun 17;8(9):1754-1756. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.2981. eCollection 2020 Sep.

A case of bullous pemphigoid showing antigenic competition-like phenomenon.

Clinical case reports

Masahiro Fukuda, Yoshimasa Nobeyama, Hiroko Sekiyama, Akihiko Asahina

Affiliations

  1. Department of Dermatology The Jikei University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan.

PMID: 32983490 PMCID: PMC7495762 DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.2981

Abstract

Antigenic competition in the skin is a phenomenon in which the current dermatitis is distributed away from the area of previously existing dermatitis. Bullous pemphigoid may present such phenomenon, even if the responsible antigen was the same.

© 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords: antigenic competition; autoimmune bullous disease; bullous pemphigoid; current eruption; pre‐existing eruption

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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