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Bowen disease of the nail unit associated with HPV-16 infection in a pemphigus patient following rituximab treatment Volume 32, numéro 2, March-April 2022

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Department of Dermatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guoxue Street, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China

A 35-year-old woman with a two-year history of asymptomatic scaly erythema in the periungual area and subungual hyperpigmentation of several nails was referred to the dermatology department. She had a six-year history of pemphigus vulgaris and was treated with prednisolone, initially 50 mg/d, tapered to 20 mg/d methylprednisolone (figure 1A). She had developed multiple vulvar papules four years ago, and a biopsy showed HPV-16+ focal, high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia. Laser and photodynamic therapy [...]