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Circulating plasma levels of the oncofetal antigen, carcinoembryonic antigen, were examined in 18 patients with various forms of epidermolysis bullosa. Carcinoembryonic antigen was markedly elevated in the plasma of 4 of 6 patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and in 1 of 2 patients with recessive epidermolysis bullosa letalis. In contrast, patients with dominantly inherited forms of the disease, dominant epidermolysis bullosa simplex and dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, had normal levels of antigen. In the recessive patients, the plasma levels of carcinoembryonic antigen appeared to correlate with the severity of cutaneous involvement. Alternatively, it is possible that expression of carcinoembryonic antigen is genetically linked to certain forms of recessive epidermolysis bullosa or is part of a pleiotropic effect of the gene coding for the disease.
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