Lack of specific immunological disease pattern in vulvar lichen sclerosus

Experimental and Molecular Pathology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 176-185

  Földes Papp, Zeno ^a   Reich, Olaf ^a   Demel, Urike ^a   Tilz, Gernot P ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cellular immunity; Humoral immunity; Immunological disease pattern; Inflammation; Lichen sclerosus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN SCAR; TISSUE REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 24344457601     PISSN: 00144800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexmp.2005.04.007     Document Type: Article

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