IN the consideration of vesiculating and bullous eruptions of the oral mucosa, insufficient attention has been given to benign mucous-membrane pemphigus as a distinct clinical entity. Also, in many ...

What’s the dirtiest part of your body? Experts explain which body parts are germ magnets or too sensitive to touch—and why ...

Painful inflammatory lesions of the skin and mucous membranes may occur in children who develop bacterial pneumonia. A research group at the University Children's Hospital Zurich has recently ...

Mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) encompasses a group of autoimmune, chronic inflammatory, subepithelial blistering disorders affecting the mucous membranes characterized by deposition of IgG, IgA or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with mucous membrane pemphigoid should be monitored by a multidisciplinary team due to a risk for ...

In 1922 Stevens and Johnson 9 reported 2 cases of "a new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia." They believed that the features of their cases, although previously described as a ...

A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...

Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid (OCP) is a rare autoimmune disease. Without proper treatment, it can damage the eyes and cause vision loss. OCP is a type of mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP). MMP is a ...

Bülbring, Lin and Schofield 1 have presented evidence which suggested that receptors of the sensory neurones subserving the peristaltic reflex in the isolated small intestine of the guinea pig, rabbit ...

Rivals or allies—how do bacteria and fungi interact in our bodies? Until now, bacteria on our mucous membranes were primarily considered to be antagonists of fungi, as they can inhibit their growth.