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Urogenital Diseases > Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications > Pregnancy Complications > Pemphigoid Gestationis
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous > Pemphigoid Gestationis

Preferred term

Pemphigoid Gestationis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Gestational Pemphigoid
  • Gestational Pemphigoids
  • Herpes Gestationis
  • Pemphigoid, Gestational
  • Pemphigoids, Gestational

Note

  • check the tags FEMALE and probably PREGNANCY

Scope note

  • An itching, autoimmune, bullous SKIN disease that occurs during the last two trimesters of PREGNANCY and PUERPERIUM. It also affects non-pregnant females with tissue of PLACENTA origin, such as CHORIOCARCINOMA; or HYDATIDIFORM MOLE. It exhibits antigenic and clinical similarity to bullous pemphigoid (PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS). This disease does not involve herpes viruses (old name, herpes gestationis).

History note

  • 2006 (1976)

In other languages

  • raskausajan herpes

    Finnish

  • gestaatioherpes
  • herpes gestationis
  • raskaudenaikainen herpes
  • raskaudenaikainen herpesinfektio
  • raskausajan herpesinfektio
  • raskausrokahtuma
  • Pemphigoid gestationis

    Swedish

  • Herpes gestationis

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006559

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