Livedo vasculopathy associated with IgM anti-phosphatidylserine-prothrombin complex antibody

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-314

  Tabata, Nobuko ^a   Oonami, Kaoru ^a   Ishibashi, Masaya ^a   Yamazaki, Masahide ^b  

^a Sendai Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CRYOGLOBULIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTEIN C; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; WARFARIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PURPURA; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES; PROTHROMBIN; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953460844     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0835     Document Type: Letter

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