title: Esophageal involvement in cicatricial pemphigoid.
abstract: We report on a 17-year-old male patient with dysphagia, cachexia, and physical underdevelopment. Despite a known esophageal stenosis, the patient received several months of psychiatric treatment, which failed to improve the clinical picture. After systematic diagnostic procedures, including repeated biopsies of the esophageal stenosis, a cicatricial pemphigoid was diagnosed and adequate therapy could be initiated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany. inasta@med-rz.uni.sb.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stallmach
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weg-Remers
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bonkoff
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Feifel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zeitz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002100:Cachexia / Q000209:etiology; D004106:Dilatation; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D004945:Esophagoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010390:Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology