Editorial: 'Bullous' pemphigoid: What are you? Urgent need of definitions and diagnostic criteria

Dermatology

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-134

  Lipsker, Dan ^a   Borradori, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Klinik und Poliklinik fur Dermatologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

BLISTER; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; DERMATITIS; DERMIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECZEMA; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ULCER; URTICARIA; VESICULAR RASH; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 77956338632     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000316104     Document Type: Editorial

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