Lichen planus pemphigoides evolving into pemphigoid nodularis

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 613-616

  Sakuma Oyama, Y ^a   Powell, A M ^a   Albert, S ^a   Oyama, N ^a   Bhogal, B S ^a   Black, M M ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CORTICOTROPIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE; TRIMIPRAMINE;

ACANTHOSIS; ADULT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL INFILTRATION; DEPRESSION; DERMIS; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INGUINAL REGION; KERATINOCYTE; LABORATORY TEST; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHENOID ERUPTION; LIMB; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PAPULE; PEMPHIGOID; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURIGO; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; STAINING; TRUNK;

AUTOANTIGENS; AZATHIOPRINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LICHEN PLANUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242574587     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2230.2003.01401.x     Document Type: Article

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