A rare case of male bullous lupus erythematosus complicated with subsequent annular hypopigmentation

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 91-97

  Itoi, Saori ^a   Tanemura, Atsushi ^a   Tsuji, Chie ^a   Kitaba, Shun ^a   Yokomi, Akinori ^a   Katayama, Ichiro ^a   Tateishi, Chiharu ^b   Tsuruta, Daisuke ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annular hypopigmentation; Bullous lupus erythematosus; Ultrastructural analysis

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; DESMOGLEIN 1 ANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN 3 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 17; MELAN A; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANNULAR HYPOPIGMENTATION; ARM; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BULLOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; CASE REPORT; CYTOPENIA; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; LABORATORY TEST; LANGERHANS CELL; LIQUEFACTION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSOME; MIDDLE AGED; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRUNK; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; BLISTER; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; REMISSION;

EID: 84900483058     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000360980     Document Type: Article

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