Mucous membrane pemphigoid with fatal bronchial involvement in a seventeen-year-old girl

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 474-478

  Gamm, David M ^a   Harris, Alexis ^b   Mehran, Reza J ^b   Wood, Mark ^b   Foster, C Stephen ^c   Mootha, V Vinod ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti phospholipid antibodies; Bronchus; Children; Cicatricial pemphigoid; Mucous membrane pemphigoid; Pulmonary disease

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; SYMBLEPHARON; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; FATALITY; FIBROSIS; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; PEMPHIGOID, BENIGN MUCOUS MEMBRANE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745026233     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000178730.34564.c7     Document Type: Article

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