Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy for the serological diagnosis of autoimmune blistering skin diseases: A review

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 614-621

  Kanitakis, Jean ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

BLISTER; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PEMPHIGOID; PEMPHIGUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEMPHIGUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS;

EID: 0034804362     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(00)00180-2     Document Type: Review

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