The importance of direct immunofluorescence in pemphigus herpetiformis diagnosis
An. bras. dermatol
; An. bras. dermatol;92(5,supl.1): 145-147, 2017. graf
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ABSTRACT
Abstract Pemphigus herpetiformis is an autoimmune bullous disease, that combines clinical features of dermatitis herpetiformis and linear IgA bullous dermatosis and immunological characteristics of pemphigus, which makes this disease peculiar and this diagnosis rarely suspected in the first evaluation of the patient. The reported case is of a patient with clinically bullous disease similar to dermatitis herpetiformis, whose multiple biopsies were inconclusive, and only after direct immunofluorescence with a pemphigus pattern (intraepidermal intercellular pattern) the confirmation of the diagnosis was possible.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
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Pemphigus
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
An. bras. dermatol
Journal subject:
DERMATOLOGIA
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Country of publication:
Brazil