Severe ocular involvement in a patient with epidermolysis bullosa acquisita.
A patient with epidermolysis bullosa acquisita and prominent ocular involvement that resulted in blindness is described. Because the severe eye involvement dominated the clinical picture, she had been diagnosed as having cicatricial pemphigoid. Clinicians should be aware that epidermolysis bullosa acquisita may mimic cicatricial pemphigoid and bullous pemphigoid.
D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004820:Epidermolysis Bullosa / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010390:Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane / Q000175:diagnosis