%0 Journal Article %T P¨¦nfigo vulgar importancia para el odont¨®logo en el diagn¨®stico %A Simonato %A Luciana Estevam %A Prado Ribeiro %A Ana Carolina %A dos Santos Silva %A Alan Roger %A Pires Soubhia %A Ana Maria %A Issamu Miyahara %A Glauco %J Acta Odontol¨®gica Venezolana %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X pemphigus vulgaris is a chronic and serious auto-imune vesiculo-bullous disease that affects skin and mucous membrane. antidesmosomal antibodies dissolve intercellular substance that keeps epithelial cells together, resulting in an intraepithelial blister just above basal epithelial layer. without treatment, pemphigus vulgaris leads patient to die. the fact that this disorder presents oral manifestation in most cases, in addiction to the relevance of a precocious diagnosis to the success of the treatment and prognosis support the importance of about the knowledge of this disease to dentist's notice. %K pemphigus vulgaris %K diagnosis %K treatment. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-63652008000400017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en