Role of Electron Microscopy in the Diagnosis of Ocular Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid

Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1651-1656

  Thorne, Jennifer E ^a,b   Anhalt, Grant J ^a   Jabs, Douglas A ^a,b   de la Cruz, Zenaida ^a   Green, W Richard ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCAR FORMATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPSY; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEMPHIGOID, BENIGN MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747884661     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.03.048     Document Type: Article

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