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• n  a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane

• From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced pemphigus (a skin disease) localized around the eyes, which has caused opaque corneas; some form of blindness in which bright light is .

News & Articles

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• How Do You Cope When a Disease Causes Your Body To Attack its Own Skin
  Pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease which causes the body to attack its own skin, has a higher incidence among Ashkenazi Jews. Click here for the rest of the article...
  Aug. 6, 2013 - The Forward

Quotes

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• Dr John in Boston Globe
  I don't think there's good evidence the IVIG adds anything to the Rituxan for pemphigus,said Dr. John R. Stanley, chairman of the department of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. "For pemphigoid,...