Martin M. Black

TL;DR: Skin collagen decreased with age and was less in the females at all ages and variations in collagen density in disease limit the use of dermal thickness as a guide to changes in its collagen content.

TL;DR: The current concepts in animal models of autoimmune diseases are reviewed in order to define the "epitope spreading" phenomenon, and how this phenomenon might play a significant role in the development and the course of autoimmune skin diseases are proposed.

TL;DR: It is suggested that adult linear IgA disease, chronic bullous disease of childhood, and childhood cicatricial pemphigoid are the same disease, with childhood cICatrician bullous diseases being a more severe form of chronic Bullous Disease of childhood.

TL;DR: A study of autoimmune related phenomena in 350 women with histologically confirmed lichen sclerosus et atrophicus revealed that 21.5% had one or more autoimmune related diseases, 21% had first degree relatives with an autoimmune-related disease, 42% had an autoantibody at a titre > 1:20, and 59.1% had a first degree relative having an autoimmune related disease as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the frequency and clinical characteristics of pruritic dermatoses in pregnancy and to assess a rationalized classification, and proposed classifying the dermatoses of pregnancy as PG, PEP, AEP, and ICP.