Noguchi Keita, Kawamura Hideki, Ishizu Hiroyuki, Okada Kuniaki
Department of General surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8638, Japan.
Department of Surgery, Sapporo Kosei Hospital, N3, E8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0033, Japan.
Int J Surg Case Rep. 2014;5(4):212-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.02.008. Epub 2014 Feb 26.
An association between bullous pemphigoid (BP) and internal malignancy has been suggested. However, no reports have documented a dramatic improvement in BP after surgery for gastric cancer.
An 82-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to a local hospital for severe fatigue. On examination, she was diagnosed with BP and gastric cancer. Her BP was resistant to steroid treatment; however, it improved dramatically after surgery for gastric cancer.
In this case, a strong relationship appeared to exist between BP and gastric cancer.
This is the first report of a dramatic improvement in BP after surgery for gastric cancer.