Evidence-based evaluation and management of chronic urticaria in children

Pediatric Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 629-639

  Zitelli, Kristine B ^a   Cordoro, Kelly M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CETIRIZINE; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; DESLORATADINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FEXOFENADINE; HYDROXYZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; LEVOCETIRIZINE; LORATADINE; MONTELUKAST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RANITIDINE; ZAFIRLUKAST;

ALLERGY TEST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; AUTOIMMUNE SKIN DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC AUTOIMMUNE URTICARIA; CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC URTICARIA; CHRONIC URTICARIA; CINCA SYNDROME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIENTAMOEBA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTERITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD ALLERGY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; OBESITY; OCCULT CANCER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROID DISEASE; TOXOCARA CANIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIAL VASCULITIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HISTAMINE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MALE; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS, LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 81255159062     PISSN: 07368046     EISSN: 15251470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2011.01518.x     Document Type: Review

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