The lupus band test in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-32

  Reich, Adam ^a   Marcinow, Katarzyna ^a   Bialynicki Birula, Rafal ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dermoepidermal; Diagnostics; Junction; Lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUPUS BAND TEST; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 79951642315     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S10145     Document Type: Review

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