Autoimmune bullous diseases and paraneoplasia

Abstract

Background and Design: Autoimmune bullous disease may rarely be associated with neoplasia, especially with lymphoproliferative malignancies. Association with malignancies has mostly been reported in pemphigus, bullous pemphigoid and dermatitis herpetiformis. Among all of them paraneoplastic pemphigus, also called paraneoplastic autoimmun multiorgan syndrome, may be accepted as a real paraneoplastic disease