Urticarial lesions: If not urticaria, what else? The differential diagnosis of urticaria. Part I. Cutaneous diseases

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 541-555

  Peroni, Anna ^a   Colato, Chiara ^a   Schena, Donatella ^a   Girolomoni, Giampiero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bullous pemphigoid; drug eruption; insect bite reactions; urticaria; urticaria pigmentosa; urticarial dermatitis

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYTARABINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PSORALEN; STEROID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; AUTOIMMUNE BULLOUS DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE PROGESTERONE DERMATITIS; BULLOUS DERMATITIS; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; HIDRADENITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSECT BITE; INTERSTITIAL GRANULOMATOUS DERMATITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MUCINOSIS; NEUTROPHILIC ECCRINE HIDRADENITIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PRURITIC URTICARIAL PAPULE AND PLAQUE OF PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; URTICARIA; URTICARIA LIKE FOLLICULAR MUCINOSIS; URTICARIA PIGMENTOSA; URTICARIAL DERMATITIS; WELLS SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; SYNDROME; URTICARIA;

EID: 77749291955     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.11.686     Document Type: Review

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