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  • 1
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    An immunofluorescence study of primary anetoderma (1990)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical and experimental dermatology 15 (1990), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2230
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Primary anetoderma (PA) has occasionally been described in association with lupus erythematosus (LE). The present study was performed to elucidate a possible causal link between PA and LE by the use of direct and indirect immunofluorescence (IF) methods. Two patients with PA were studied. Biopsy specimens were obtained from early inflammatory and atrophic anetoderma lesions and from the exposed and unexposed uninvolved skin of each patient. The pattern of immune deposits observed in one patient was indistinguishable from that which is often seen in systemic LE, and in the other patient from that which may be observed in chronic cutaneous LE. The direct IF study also showed fibrillar immune deposits in the dermis that resembled elastic fibres morphologically. The indirect IF study, however, failed to demonstrate anti-elastic fibre antibodies in the patients'sera. The results of this study and a review of the literature suggest that some cases of PA have direct IF findings similar to those of either chronic cutaneous or systemic LE. However, these findings, along; with the serological findings, are insufficient to establish a diagnosis of LE in most of these PA cases.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2230.1990.tb02048.x
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    The clinical and histopathological spectrum of IgA-pemphigus—report of two cases (1990)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Clinical and experimental dermatology 15 (1990), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2230
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Two new cases of neutrophilic bullous disease exhibiting bound and circulating intercellular IgA in viva in both direct and indirect immunofluorescence (IF), for which the term IgA-pemphigus was recently proposed, are presented. The first case showed a unique constellation of clinical and histopathological features not previously described for IgA-pemphigus, resembling both dermatitis herpetiformis and pemphigus, for which the designation IgA-herpetiform pemphigus seems most appropriate. The second case showed clinical and histopathological features mimicking subcorneal pustular dermatosis for which the previously used term IgA-pemphigus foliaceus seems most appropriate. The previously reported 11 cases showing similar direct IF findings, as well as our two patients, illustrate the main differences between IgA-pemphigus and classic forms of this condition: (a) different clinical manifestations with the absence of Nikolsky's sign; (b) scanty acantholvsis; an abundance of neutrophils, with occasional neutrophilic spongiosis; (c) absence of C3 on direct IF; (d) the lower sensitivity of indirect IF and low levels of circulating antibodies; (e) the relatively benign course of the disease; (f) the apparent responsiveness to sulphones in many cases. It is suggested that IgA pemphigus should he considered as an entity separate from, but closely related to, classic pemphigus.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2230.1990.tb02138.x
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    The usefulness of immunofluorescent tests in pemphigus patients in clinical remission (1989)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 120 (1989), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Direct and indirect immunofluorescent studies (DIF, IIF) were performed on 24 pemphigus vulgaris patients who were in a state of clinical remission. The tests were repeated after an interval of 6 months. All the patients were on maintenance therapy with oral prednisone. The DIF in eight patients showed negative results among whom seven remained negative. Six patients out of 24 showed weakly positive fluorescence and ten patients showed strong positive fluorescence. The IIF was negative in 17 patients and positive in seven patients who also showed positive DIF. During a follow-up period of 20 months, one of eight patients with negative DIF relapsed compared with two of six patients with weak positive DIF and five of 10 patients with strong DIF. Five patients with strong DIF for IgG also had C3, of whom three relapsed, compared with five of 19 patients who were negative for C3. Four of seven patients with positive IIF relapsed compared with four of 17 with negative IIF. It is suggested that repeated DIF tests in pemphigus patients, who are in clinical remission, may serve as an indicator for the immunological activity and be of help in the management of these cases.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1989.tb04165.x
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    A direct immunofluorescence study in elastosis perforans serpiginosa (1985)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 113 (1985), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Two cases of elastosis perforans serpiginosa were studied by direct immunofluorescence. In one case, homogeneous deposits of IgM, C3 and C4 on the abnormal elastic fibres in the papillary dermis were demonstrated. In addition, in both cases, along the basement membrane zone, coarse linear deposits of fibrinogen and properdin were observed inside and near the transepidermal channels. Groups of cytoid bodies stained for IgM and occasional weak linear deposits of IgG, IgA, IgM and C3 were also observed. The immune deposits on the abnormal elastic fibres might indicate antigenic alteration and activation of humoral immunological mechanisms in the process of their elimination. The other findings may reflect a non-specific binding by damaged tissue structures.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1985.tb02381.x
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    Conjunctival involvement in pemphigus vulgaris: a clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescence study (1990)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    British journal of dermatology 123 (1990), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1365-2133
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Eleven patients with pemphigus vulgaris and with eye complaints had histopathological and direct immunofluorescence (DIF) studies on biopsies of their conjunctivae. In eight of the patients the ocular symptoms preceded the other manifestations of pemphigus. None of the 11 patients had any detectable conjunctival blisters or erosions. The conjunctivitis in three of the patients proved on histopathology and DIF to be a manifestation of pemphigus vulgaris. In the remaining patients, conjunctival hyperaemia with or without a mucoid discharge was observed, but there were no specific histopathological features, although one of them had a positive DIF.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1990.tb01478.x
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