Epidermolysis Bullosa Pruriginosa Treated with Acitretin

Abstract

Epidermolysis bullosa pruriginosa (EBP) is a rare inherited and distinctive clinical subtype of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Here is a pediatric case of EBP with extremely pruritic lesions on extensor aspect of limbs and back, where the main modality of treatment given was topical retinoid (tazarotene) and oral retinoid (Acitretin), to which she had responded well clinically as well as symptomatically.