Autologous serum skin test and autologous whole blood injections to patients with chronic urticaria: A retrospective analysis

Dermatologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-36

  Tseng, Jonathan Te Peng ^a   Lee, Woan Ruoh ^b,c   Lin, Sheng Shan ^d   Hsu, Chun Hung ^a   Yang, Hung Hsu ^a   Wang, Kuo Hsien ^d   Tsai, Hsiou Hsin ^d   Tsai, Tsung Hsien ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autologous serum skin test; Autologous whole blood injection; Chronic urticaria

Indexed keywords

AUTOLOGOUS WHOLE BLOOD; BLOOD EXTRACT; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS SERUM SKIN TEST; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMENORRHEA; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; SKIN TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 63049100086     PISSN: 10278117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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