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* Rule out look-alike conditions, including erythema multiforme, sunburn, toxic shock syndrome, staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, and
paraneoplastic pemphigus.
The first category is referred to as pemphigus and entails 4 disease entities: pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus foliaceus,
paraneoplastic pemphigus, and IgA pemphigus.
The differential diagnosis for EM includes urticaria, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, fixed drug eruption, bullous pemphigoid,
paraneoplastic pemphigus, acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis (Sweet's syndrome), polymorphous light eruption (PMLE), and cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis.
Additionally, there may be an association between FDCS and autoimmune disease:
paraneoplastic pemphigus and myasthenia gravis.
According to this new classification, pemphigus group diseases include, pemphigus vulgaris, pemphigus vegetans, pemphigus foliaceus, pemphigus erythematosus, endemic pemphigus, IgA pemphigus, pemphigus herpetiformis,
paraneoplastic pemphigus, and drug-induced pemphigus.
