[Replacing systemic with topical corticotherapy in patients with generalized bullous pemphigoid and serious steroid-induced iatrogenesis].

We describe four patients with generalized bullous pemphigoid, who received treatment with oral prednisone and suffered serious corticosteroid-induced iatrogenesis. In all cases, we decided to quickly withdraw the systemic corticosteroid treatment and begin treatment with 0.05 % clobetasol propionate (20 g/day).

[Bilateral ossification of the auricular cartilage].

Auricular petrification is an infrequent finding in which the ears become completely or partially rigid. The most frequent cause is the calcification of the auricular cartilage and, infrequently, auricular ossification. Ossification may be due to hypothermia, physical factors, inflammatory processes and different endocrinopathies.