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Would you give lung SBRT to a patient with bullous pemphigoid on the chest and torso?
The patient's lesion is a biopsy-proven adenocarcinoma that has grown over the past several months. They have bullous pemphigoid which is being treate...
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Would you utilize rituximab or dupilumab for treatment resistant bullous pemphigoid?
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What is your approach to tapering treatments for patients with bullous pemphigoid?
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How would you approach treating patients with biopsy-proven Hailey-Hailey disease refractory to multiple oral therapies (i.e. tetracyclines, naltrexone, apremilast, glycopyrrolate, Cellcept), and requiring monthly steroid tapers for disease flares?
The disease is responsive to ablative lasers however laser treatments are not an option. 
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What is your stepwise approach to a patient with erosive gingivitis?
 What treatment do you initiate before you have a clear diagnosis?
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What is your approach to management of radiation-induced bullous pemphigoid?
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How would you treat pemphigus foliaceous in an elderly patient intolerant to oral steroids?
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What initial workup do you perform when there is a concern for porphyria?
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Do you routinely provide GI protection in the form of a PPI or histamine blocker for patients with immunobullous disease initiated on high doses of oral corticosteroids?
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If you have clinical suspicion for a paraneoplastic process (e.g. dermatomyositis or pemphigus), what work-up do you pursue?
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What treatment regimen do you start for patients who present with mucous membrane pemphigoid?
 Have you prescribed Rituximab and IVIG simultaneously for patients?
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How do you manage patients with bullous pemphigoid who have IgE autoantibodies to BP180?
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How do you manage patients with cicatricial pemphigoid refractory to doxycycline and dapsone?
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Is it safe to offer head and neck radiotherapy to a patient with a diagnosis of porphyria such as erythropoietic protoporphyria or porphyria cutanea tarda?
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Papers discussed in this category

Head & neck, 2010-08
Severe radiation therapy-related soft tissue toxicity in a patient with porphyria cutanea tarda: a literature review.
Rheum Dis Clin North Am, 2020 Aug
Risk Factors and Cancer Screening in Myositis.
Rheumatology (Oxford),
A systematic review and meta-analysis to inform cancer screening guidelines in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
JAMA Dermatol, 2022 Mar 01
Treatment of Familial Benign Chronic Pemphigus With Superficial Radiotherapy.
JAMA dermatology, 2018-12-01
Effectiveness of the Tacrolimus Swish-and-Spit Treatment Regimen in Patients With Geographic Tongue.
American journal of clinical dermatology, 2020 Aug
Dermatologic Sequelae Associated with Radiation Therapy.
Cancers, 2022 Nov 30
Impact of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases on Treatment Outcomes and Radiation Toxicities in Patients with Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: A Matched Case-Control Analysis.

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