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Clinical Report

Paraneoplastic Pemphigus Associated with Non-Hodgkin B-Cell Lymphoma and Good Response to Prednisone

María Isabel Martínez De Pablo, Pilar Iranzo, José Manuel Mascaró, Alex Llambrich, Manel Baradad, Carmen Herrero
DOI: 10.1080/00015550510025542

Abstract

Paraneoplastic pemphigus is a life-threatening autoimmune bullous disease associated with neoplasia, generally of lymphoid origin. Immunosuppressive therapy is often disappointing and there are only a few reports of patients surviving more than 2 years. These cases were generally associated with benign neoplasms. We report here the case of a patient with paraneoplastic pemphigus associated with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma who had a surprisingly good response to systemic corticosteroids and remains free of lesions more than 3 years later despite progression of her neoplasm,

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