Value of routine diagnostic criteria of bullous pemphigoid

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 206-210

  Chaidemenos, George Ch ^a   Maltezos, Efstratios ^a   Chrysomallis, Fotis ^a   Kouskoukis, Konstantinos ^a   Kapetis, Evangelos ^a   Mourellou, Olga ^a   Gotsis, Nikos ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3 RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEMPHIGOID;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031952214     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.1998.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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