The importance of direct immunofluorescence in pemphigus herpetiformis diagnosis
AUTOR(ES)
Faria, Paula Carolina Pessanha de, Cruz, Camila Caberlon, Abulafia, Luna Azulay, Maceira, Juan Manuel Pineiro, Cassia, Flávia de Freire, Medeiros, Paula Mota
FONTE
An. Bras. Dermatol.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2017
RESUMO
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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