Infantile bullous pemphigoid treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1084-1089

  Sugawara, Nobuyuki ^a   Nagai, Yayoi ^a   Matsushima, Yoichiro ^a   Aoyama, Kumi ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE;

BLISTER; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URTICARIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT; MALE; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS;

EID: 36048936627     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2007.08.005     Document Type: Review

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