Blisters in a nursing home: Bullous pemphigoid more often than we think? [5]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1405-1406

  Fernandez Viadero, Carlos ^a   Mateos, Felix Arce ^b   Velez, Rosario Verduga ^a   Santiago, Damaso Crespo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Marques de Valdecilla Univ Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGED; BLISTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPER; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LETTER; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEMPHIGOID; SKIN BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAPERS, ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3843058951     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52379_5.x     Document Type: Letter

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