mucous membrane pemphigoid
MONDO:0018746Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names mucous membrane pemphigoid yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Mucous membrane pemphigoid is a bullous dermatosis characterized clinically by blistering of the mucous membranes followed by scarring, and immunologically by IgG, IgA and/or C3 deposits on the epidermal basement membrane.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0018746), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
7 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- AutoimmunityHPOHP:0002960
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Oral mucosal blistersHPOHP:0200097
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Atypical scarring of skinHPOHP:0000987
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- GingivitisHPOHP:0000230
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Abnormal blistering of the skinHPOHP:0008066
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- BlindnessHPOHP:0000618
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Corneal opacityHPOHP:0007957
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (1)
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: mucous membrane pemphigoid
- Also called
- benign mucous Membrane pemphigoidcicatricial pemphigoidmucosal pemphigoidMucosynechial pemphigoid