High prevalence of autoimmune urticaria in children with chronic urticaria

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 922-927

  Brunetti, Luigia ^a   Francavilla, Ruggiero ^a   Miniello, Vito L ^a   Platzer, Michael H ^b   Rizzi, Domenica ^a   Lospalluti, Maria Letizia ^a   Poulsen, Lars K ^b   Armenio, Lucio ^a   Skov, Per Stahl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

autoimmune urticaria; autologous serum skin test; childhood; Chronic idiopathic urticaria; serum induced basophil histamine release

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; RECEPTORS, IGE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URTICARIA;

EID: 4944235683     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2004.07.042     Document Type: Article

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