[Profile of bullous pemphigoid, 47 cases reported]

ABSTRACT

We report forty-seven cases of bullous pemphigoid recorded in the dermatology department of Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis during 16 years. In Tunisia, bullous pemphigoid is at the second rank of aquired autoimmune bullous skin diseases, differ pemphigus. The profile of bulbous pemphigoid in our series difere from that reported in the literature by the more young age [67,2 years] and the male predilection but don't present any clinical an epidemiological particularity. Three atypicals forms were observed a vesicular form, a localized form and an infantile form. Systemic corticosteroids were choice treatment for our patients