Linear IgA Disease Presenting as Desquamative Gingivitis: A Pattern Poorly Recognized in Medicine

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 469-472

  O'Regan, Esther ^a   Bane, Anita ^a   Flint, Stephen ^a   Timon, Conrad ^a   Toner, Mary ^a,b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESQUAMATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE COURSE; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOUTH LESION; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH ULCER; RELAPSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GINGIVA; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; ORAL ULCER;

EID: 1842478033     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.4.469     Document Type: Article

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