A patient with immunological features of paraneoplastic pemphigus in the absence of a detectable malignancy [6]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 382-384

  Verrini, Anna ^a   Cannata, Guiseppe ^a   Cozzani, Emanuele ^a   Terracini, Michela ^a   Parodi, Aurora ^a   Rebora, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; PREDNISONE; TUMOR MARKER;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC PEMPHIGUS; PATHOGENESIS; PEMPHIGUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AZATHIOPRINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PEMPHIGUS; PLECTIN; PREDNISONE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036399872     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000155502320624177     Document Type: Letter

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