Cicatricial pemphigoid and rheumatoid arthritis.
A review of our experience with cicatricial pemphigoid revealed three patients with cicatrical pemphigoid and rheumatoid arthritis and one patient with ankylosing spondylitis who had a high titer of rheumatoid factor. A comparison of these four patients with patients who had bullous pemphigoid and rheumatoid arthritis shows similarities between cicatricial pemphigoid and bullous pemphigoid in relation to the development of rheumatoid arthritis.
D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000150:complications*; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000150:complications