Clinical experience in pemphigoid gestationis: Report of 10 cases

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 823-828

  Castro, Luis A ^a   Lundell, Ryan B ^a   Krause, Patricia K ^a   Gibson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; PREDNISONE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PEMPHIGOID GESTATIONIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; BLISTER; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; PEMPHIGOID GESTATIONIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URTICARIA;

EID: 33749656091     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.07.015     Document Type: Article

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