As you may have noticed on the image sliders throughout my website my caseload includes many types of auto-immune and immune-mediated skin diseases including various forms of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus, Erythema multiforme and Vasculitides. I have encountered some very rare conditions notably, I described a Border Collie with Vesicular Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus in my Dermatology Certificate casebook a full twelve years before a similar case was first described in the scientific literature. Until this time this rare, painful and, often recalcitrant, condition had only been documented in Shetland Sheepdogs and Rough Collies. In 2008, I diagnosed a young Great Dane with Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita within twenty four hours of onset and his case details were then used in the first international case series (n = 20) for this condition published in Veterinary Dermatology in 2015.
The following 2 pages describe the 2 most common conditions that I see.